Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 506558,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/506558/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 371,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. S.S. Ahmed.",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 140,
        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
        "slug": "shakeel-shabbir"
    },
    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I hope I get more time for that. When you are in your house with your family and an attacker comes in, before you start looking at what the askari is doing, you have to protect yourself. The fabric of the society, as we all have said, has fallen. The values of Kenya have fallen. There was a time Kenya had status in this continent and also in the world. There was discipline. What we have heard about the stripping of women is lack of morality, a breakdown in the family unit and a breakdown in spirituality. There was a devil worship report that has disappeared, never to be seen. It appears that we are losing our spirituality in this country. Two Administration Police officers were found stripping some ladies and they were given a bail of Kshs.50,000, yet a poor man who steals maize is put into prison for 12 months. That is what we call lack of discipline. Those Administration Police officers have been caught and they must be disciplined irrespective of the court process. The Administration Police officers and the police must know that there are levels of discipline. They should have been suspended with immediate effect as they await the court process. As hon. Mwaura said, sometimes we have to celebrate people like Mr. Gatitu and the late Mr. Shaw because they were doing the right thing but they got imprisoned. Is there something wrong with our system? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is another issue that we have; the Provincial Administration and the police who do not see eye to eye. As a matter of fact, they are shooting and killing each other. There are robberies, one committed by the police, the other committed by the Administration Police (AP) officers. They are not getting along at all. There are 35,000 police officers in this country. Majority of them are taking care of banks. In Kisumu only, we have about 35 banks and each bank has two police officers. That is between 70 and 100 police officers in charge of security of some banks. The rich in this country get away with everything. They have trained officers who are armed with AK47 guns. They are not askaris . Then they are given about Ksh500 for food. I think the whole structure needs to change. 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."
}