Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 66551,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/66551/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 262,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musyimi",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 95,
        "legal_name": "Mutava Musyimi",
        "slug": "mutava-musyimi"
    },
    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I was saying, the sovereignty we have, in your words, is exercised on behalf of our people. Therefore, I stand here today to remind us that this sovereignty, whether exercised in the Judiciary or in this Parliament or by the Executive, is delegated. It is sovereignty that belongs to the people of Kenya. The people of Kenya have given to themselves a new Constitution, and they have huge expectations from those whom they elect. I stand here to make a plea to all of us who are in positions of power, and remind ourselves that power is, indeed, a privilege. It comes with enormous privileges and tremendous obligations. However, power can also be abused; it can be blind. Power can make us completely insensitive to the needs and cries of our people. It can make us blind to what is obvious to other people, who are not in power. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we owe it to our people to read the mood that they have huge needs of poverty; they need water, they need predictability in Government, they need stability and they need an end to corruption. As I stand to thank you, I want to say that we need to be humbled by the positions we have. In a book that some of us may be familiar with, The Bible, in the story of Esther, the one lesson we learn is that the people in power are often the last people to know what is happening in the country. That has nothing to do with whether or not you have a national intelligence service. You can have it but be completely impervious to the actual needs of the people."
}