Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 692277,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/692277/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 228,
    "type": "other",
    "speaker_name": "",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "I congratulate the Committee for the 30 days hard work and the leadership of the two coalitions for giving their full support to the Committee. I also thank the leadership of the coalitions in both the National Assembly and the Senate. The Report of the Committee was signed by the leadership of the two Houses; the National Assembly and the Senate. I will not go into the substance, because going clause by clause may take a lot of time. Sen. G.G. Kariuki posed a question that it is all well making these good laws, but unless they are obeyed---. However, unless they are implemented, it will be like somebody who goes to Church every Sunday and knows every verse in the Bible, but as soon as he leaves the Church, he is busy robbing a shop or raping a lady in the village. A law of this nature is so fundamental to our democracy that each person, both citizens and leaders, should do everything possible to make sure it is implemented, not in terms of what it says, but even its spirit and objectives. That is the only way that this will work. Pele called football ‘the beautiful game’. That game works only when you obey the rules. Football is serious business, but it is partly entertainment. Nothing is more serious than politics; it is about people’s lives. We should play by the rules that we make. Gladly, it is those who participate in the business of politics who end up as Presidents, Senators or Members of the National Assembly. If we cannot obey the rules, then they are not worth the paper they are written on or even the time that we take in preparing legislation and enacting them. To that extent, it still remains to be seen whether this law will work. Africa is in a terrible situation at the moment. It is very difficult to find a country in Africa where there has been a proper regime change; it is just a continuation. There has never been really a regime change even in Kenya. It is the Moi’s state that continues to rule this country in various shapes and forms. If you analyse it properly, there has never been a proper change of government in this country in terms of truly an opposition party having a chance. If you go to Tanzania, South Africa and the whole of Africa, you will witness that for yourself. Now, there is the case of Gabon. Truly speaking, it is not that they do not have the laws. They do not have the will or commitment to obey their own laws. So, the beginning is fidelity and faithfulness to the law. That applies to every one of us, whether in Government or outside. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I hope that as we speak, the commissioners that are still in place and are soon to go and the secretariat will desist from doing anything that will jeopardize the law that we are enacting. We know that if they now engage themselves in trying to prepare for the elections in the spirit of the old order and the laws that we are changing, then everything that we are doing now will be completely negated. Even the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) should be very careful about what he says. I like what we say to ourselves, that we cannot talk about Nyeri County and its governor now because we know our duty. So, the CEO of the Commission should be very careful about what he says. He is committing himself to doing this and that, and we do not know what will happen when the new commissioners come in. So, he should be very careful. Secondly, in the hearing of the Senate Majority Leader, something that will mess us up is happening in this country. Jubilee Party is trying to create a political behemoth. The marriage between the political parties that have joined this thing now called Jubilee is like a marriage between a behemoth and a hydra. If you have read the articles of Hobbs especially in relation to the civil conflicts that engulfed England in the 17th Century and you look at what happened in The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
}