Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 631393,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/631393/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 183,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hassan",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 431,
        "legal_name": "Hassan Omar Hassan Sarai",
        "slug": "hassan-omar-hassan-sarai"
    },
    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, in Kenya’s post-independence history, all human rights bodies are in concurrence that there has never been a massacre or crimes against humanity that were committed blatantly like those in northern Kenya. In fact, it is our only modern-day genocide; the Wagalla and others. This occasioned massive suffering in northern Kenya. In fact, the issue of IDPs in northern Kenya has been there since the time I was in the Kenya National Commission for Human Rights (KNCHR). While I appreciate the personal thought of the Coast region, I also wanted to broaden it so that we include the whole of Kenya rather than be very specific to four or five areas. We need to know what consultations usually take place in the processes of integration. I had to travel to Taita-Taveta because there was belief at that time that some of the IDPs would be settled there and the Taita community was up in arms. Therefore, even in terms of settlement strategies, the Government needs to inform us what broad mechanisms they engage with local stakeholders to ensure that they cool down the embers of ethnicity, because part of these conflicts were created largely due to the ethnic character of our country. Communities need to be reassured that even as people are being resettled, they will not pose any particular ethnic animosity. The counties of northern Kenya have equally been hit very hard and it will be important for us to also determine the status of resettlement of those IDPs. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
}