{"id":493140,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/493140/?format=json","text_counter":137,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Wetangula","speaker_title":"The Senate Minority Leader","speaker":{"id":210,"legal_name":"Moses Masika Wetangula","slug":"moses-wetangula"},"content":" Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to contribute to the Motion. When I came to the Chamber this afternoon, I expected - although I sit in the Rules and Business Committee (RBC) - that this House would discuss important issues like paying tribute to one of the greatest scholars ever grown from the African continent; Prof. Ali Mazrui, whose passing on brings down the curtain on one of the most illustrious intellectual and academic lives ever lived in our country or even the issue of Makueni."}