Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 669903,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/669903/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 87,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "I am saying this because I have seen it from your records that the vice-chairs you have in those two Committees come from the majority party. Why did we have to amend the Standing Orders? You should move with speed to correct that anomaly. It is logically expected that the Chairperson, for one reason or another may be absent. The person who should take the Chair must at all times be from the minority party. You must carry on that principal. When you are not there and the person who is chairing is from the majority party, then it obviously defeats logic of having to provide that. Remember it is to be chaired by the minority party notwithstanding that the majority party has a majority membership. So, it does not matter. Unfortunately, why I am raising this is because in the Departmental Committees I have not seen any Member from the minority party being a Vice-Chair. All of them are chaired and deputised by members of the majority party. So, for only these two, the majority party should allow that whether the chair is present or not, the person chairing must at all times be from the minority party. That is the way it should be. Even under the former governance structure, that is the way it always operated. Hon. Midiwo, you will remember that Hon. Jimmy Angwenyi was a Member of one of those committees and he will appreciate. Before we get to that allow me go get the Member for Vihiga to make a Personal Statement and thereafter Hon. Kamama will respond to the issues raised. Hon. Yusuf Chanzu, you have the Floor."
}