Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 670314,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/670314/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 211,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1264,
        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
        "slug": "gideon-ochanda-ogolla"
    },
    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I would like to say that the fish economy in this country is distraught. It is very unfortunate that we acknowledge that this is one of the sources of food in this country. We also realise that when we talk about strategic food reserves, many times we only concentrate on cereals. We talk about maize and wheat. We hardly talk about other sources of food that we have in the country. It is really unfortunate that there has not been any particular public investment taken to this direction. If you look at the cumulative experiences that we have had in the sector in terms of attempts to improve it, all of it has been going down. We had experiences in the 1970s. Many of them are not necessarily Kenyan attempts. Many of them are attempts with donor support. There was the Nordic support in Turkana and the European Union support in the Victoria particularly coming up with cold storages for fish. All these things have never taken off. The Nordic one in Turkana did not take off. We had little public investment in Mbita in the 1970s that did not take off. After that, in the 1980s, there were additional attempts in Lake Victoria. There was the Lake Victoria Environmental Programme with the support of the European Union that put up cooling facilities in Wich Lum in Bondo Constituency and there has been an attempt in Usenge Beach"
}