{"id":509062,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/509062/?format=json","text_counter":145,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Onyonka","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":128,"legal_name":"Richard Momoima Onyonka","slug":"richard-onyonka"},"content":"I will give you an example of myself. I have been removed from all my committees simply because I have been criticising my party and my party leader. I only sit on the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. I was a Member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, but I was removed. They keep telling me that I am in another Committee, which I have never received any correspondence on. As far as I am concerned, I am committee-less and it looks like I am also party-less! So, I object to this Motion. I completely refuse to be cowed. I will take positions which are critical because my voters are the ones who have told me to raise the issues that I have raised. Anybody trying to remove me from the Committee simply because I am taking a different position from my party is completely wrong."}