Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 499313,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/499313/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 180,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kisoi",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2350,
        "legal_name": "Michael Manthi Kisoi",
        "slug": "michael-manthi-kisoi"
    },
    "content": "I have quite a number of reservations on this Bill and will be looking at it critically because it is creating very many institutions. We have the County Water Boards, the Water Trust Fund, the Water Service Regulatory Authority and the Natural Water Harvesting Storage Authority. We must be careful not to create so many institutions that will end up creating confusion during the implementation stage. The institutions that we are creating will eat into the Exchequer. We are going to fund salaries. We are going to have resources to manage. The most important thing is to ensure that water is readily accessible to every Kenyan. We should not pass a Bill that will provide that almost 40 per cent of all the administrative and recurrent expenditure go into issues of management of the water resource. From the word go, this is a very critical Bill. I want to support it because I come from a region where I know the problems of water. Our mothers and ourselves have been serious victims in terms of trying to access water. At times, we had to forgo our sleep, wake up at 4.00 a.m. and walk about 24 kilometers to get water; then come back home with the water and go to school. Our mothers have seriously been affected. Therefore, this is a Bill that I would support without any reservations at all. It is the right way to go at this juncture. Lastly, in this country, water is one of the key things that we should be very serious with and ensure that every Kenyan has access to clean water at their disposal in this century."
}