Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 543609,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/543609/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 437,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
        "slug": "johnson-arthur-sakaja"
    },
    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First, I want to pass my heartfelt condolences to the families that have lost their loved ones and to the entire country because we have really been hit hard as a country. All Members are aware that on Sunday there was a scare in Kikuyu Campus and students were jumping from the sixth floor. This has hit us to the core. There is trauma and fear across this country. For those who have visited the families in Chiromo, I was there on Saturday with a few friends and hon. M'eruaki was there as well, the first question they were asking is: where are our leaders? Those families were not even able to receive a meal. Red Cross has done good work. Dr. Mwithi from the Ministry of Health has done good work. They were saying that they have only seen the First Lady and the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Sports, hon. Wario. At such a point, we as the National Assembly, let us try and do something for those families so that they also know that they are not alone. If you walk through that morgue and if you saw what we saw, bodies that cannot be identified, that cannot even provide fingerprints because they are rotting or heads that have been blown up, I do not think you can take the matter of security casually. I do not think even my colleagues from Jubilee can look at this politically. We must speak the truth. We have a huge problem with security and it must be dealt with. We cannot keep saying that these things happen. We come, we adjourn Parliament, speak for 30 minutes then forget and it is business as usual. That our Security Committee will summon two people to talk to them and forget about it, is sad. When can we take real action? We cannot just keep talking about security in this country. I know I do not have much time but I wish I could say a few things. On the first thing, I want to disagree with the proposals on the relocation of Dadaab for one reason. These knee jerk reactions will not give us a solution. You have 400,000 Somalis where you can see them and you want to send them back to Somalia where there is no government with a porous border to be received with open arms by Al Shabaab . Are you not giving them more troops to radicalize? We need to ask ourselves the real questions as to why we can allow people to be radicalized on our ground. And the leaders from those regions, the Somali leaders, these young people are being radicalized inside mosques. We are not saying Muslims are terrorists."
}