{"id":675670,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/675670/?format=json","text_counter":193,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Mati","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":2469,"legal_name":"G.J. Munuve Mati","slug":"gj-munuve-mati"},"content":"Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I would like to contribute to this Motion in a very polite way. In my earlier days, where you and I were across Uhuru Highway, there was something we used to call democratic centralism, an art of accepting when you have lost; when you accept the majority opinion and position, internalise and make it your own. I can only equate what I have seen this afternoon to a Kiswahili saying: “ Mkuki mtamu kwa nguruwe, kwabinadamu mchungu .” Hon. Speaker, I have watched with interest the haste with which Hon. Mwadeghu has tried to bring Members back in Committees. I will not talk about myself because democratic centralism demands that I do not become selfish and refer to myself. We have seen a draconian approach to democracy where people masquerade here as democrats and accuse my chair of being undemocratic and dictatorial. I can quote and cite another incident. Hon. Speaker, there was a time we debated a lot of things, and wrote some rules. It was security Bill which was led by my brother and friend, Hon. Kaluma. He led in coming up with the amendments but coming here, he was basically commanded to recant, and swallow everything which he had proposed and passed."}