Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 489859,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/489859/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 121,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
        "slug": "bonny-khalwale"
    },
    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was just concluding because I am sure members of the public using their access to the website of the Senate have accessed this Bill. When I commented on the new clause, I was just saying that most of the leaders of this country must humble themselves. This afternoon before we came here, I ran into a huge Committee of Speakers of the county assemblies of Kenya. I will not tell you which offices they entered, but they were coming to lobby that we make sure that we remove ceilings. They entered into those offices and when I asked them why they want to have unlimited expenditure, they told me that they also want to have access to what Members of Parliament have. They told me that we must be exemplary, we must move away from using our own personal resources and if we want to lead that kind of life, we should use our own private resources. I want to appeal to all the political players that there is no point playing jokes with serious matters of development, and telling MCAs that they will be given everything that they want so long as they vote this way or the other way for the forthcoming referendum. That cannot be the reason. If the referendum is bad, the MCAs will reject it and if it is good, they will support it. Let whoever thinks that he will spend Kshs12 billion of public funds to please the MCAs know that the Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly and the Public Accounts and Investments Committee of the Senate will be waiting for him and will deal with him in accordance with this Constitution. Public funds cannot be used to please people. Such funds must be used to cause development to take place in all the corners of Kenya. I beg to support."
}