Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 504110,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/504110/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 184,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ndiritu",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1539,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Mathenge Ndiritu",
        "slug": "samuel-mathenge-ndiritu"
    },
    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Like all hon. Members, I shall start by sending my condolences to those people who lost their loved ones and members of their families in the Mandera Massacre. It was very painful and we would wish that the President stops being nice and becomes very good in his job so that he can sort out some of those things. Having said that, I rise to support this Bill that proposes a Parliamentary Society. It is true that even as I stand here, it does not occur to me that I might be part of the 80 per cent. I am convinced that I am going to be the next hon. Member for Gilgil Constituency but every time we go for an exam, even when I went for my exams, I always told my colleagues that there is passing and failing. Of course, no one ever plans for failure. I am also not going to start planning not to get the Gilgil seat. Having said that, it does not change the circumstances and it is quite in order to think of what happens. Even if I was elected another five years, I would still be young; I would still be productive and I would need a fallback position once that time expires. I, therefore, agree that this is the best time to have this Bill and to have this board. We have new experiences now. You find that some of the things you used to do, you cannot do them now. Once you become a Member of Parliament, as it has been said, you are put in a certain stature and some customers think now you are too high that they cannot have business transactions with you. So, you start losing even as early as that. Once you are elected, you become a pariah. Once you are elected, you cannot even access army barracks. I used to walk into Gilgil Barracks without anybody stopping me or just after a few questions and on production of identity card, but not anymore. Today, I am told I have to be cleared from the headquarters. Even after you have stopped being a Member of Parliament, there are those who still treat you as a pariah. Even some employers cannot take you because they will think you will start agitating for rights and so on. I have worked in many organizations, but once you become a politician the trust they had in you ends. Maybe, it is because of the way we dish out whatever little we have. Sometimes people think it is a lot but sometimes you are straining to go to those social functions. They can never trust you with the positions that you used to hold before because they believe that you have been transformed into a worst person. By the end of the five years, and some hon. Members have alluded to the fact that the pay slip is near The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}