Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 555399,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/555399/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 156,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Injendi",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2214,
        "legal_name": "Moses Malulu Injendi",
        "slug": "moses-malulu-injendi"
    },
    "content": "us because there have been some deliberate efforts by the Government to delay the payments. During one of our meetings, it emerged that the teachers were aware that they were to get only Kshs42 billion but interestingly, the Controller of Budget came up with a figure of Ksh151 billion in order to cause confusion with regard to the payment of these dues. Some of those retired teachers are sick while others have died and left behind families that are suffering and yet there is money that clearly belonged to their departed keen. A sum of Kshs16.7 billion has actually been budgeted for this exercise but has been lying at the Government Treasury all this time. I urge the Government to pay the sum of Kshs16.7 to those teachers immediately since the money is there. We wonder why the Attorney-General would appear before the Committee and lie that certain measures have been taken. You realise that it is an open lie when you check the records. For example, when we urged him one time, to authorize the payment – of course there was the issue of interpretation of the court ruling – he lied to us that the matter was before the Supreme Court. However, when we checked the records, we realised that what he told us was not the case. Even the advocate of the teachers, Mr. Kimata, confirmed the same."
}