Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 707265,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/707265/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 254,
    "type": "other",
    "speaker_name": "",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "convinced that the meeting itself was not a waste of time but it was a wake-up call for most Kenyans. Let us embrace democracy and exercise what is important as spelt out in this Report, and I am sure we will see the results. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Kenya is well-located. It is a rich country and it is in the spotlight of Africa. The strategic position of Kenya both in East and Central Africa can tell it all. That is the reason most people come to see what is it. We have been hosting quite a number of people. They have been coming and promising to help us but sometimes, our democratic rights fail us. You will find people opposing ideas which are pragmatic and saying that they cannot work. That is called retrogression. The country will not move ahead. Whereas we have the opportunity of being the leading African country, apart from South Africa and Northern part of Africa, we should be given time and space to grow. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is a key example. If we can broadly hold on to it and own it, we will be able to transport goods with ease from the Kenyan coast to our neighbours like Uganda and Tanzania. This will increase our per capita income and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This Motion touches on the World Trade Organisations (WTO), inter-territorial trade cartels, various treaty organisations and how we can enter into treaty organisations with other neighbouring countries like the East Africa Community (EAC) which was first founded in 1967. Therefore, we will move on just like the developed countries. If we embrace the recommendations and resolutions that have been passed by the international conventions in Geneva and Lusaka, we will be a country to reckon with in Africa and in the world. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, countries like Bulgaria, Hungary, Spain and Portugal in Europe are also struggling. They cannot be compared to South Africa which is rated number 10 in the leading countries in the world. We can also become powerful if we go by the recommendations that have been made in this Report. These are great ideas that we should adopt. We should study and practice the recommendations that have been stated in the Report so that we can be more developed than the South East Asia ‘tigers’. With those few remarks, I second."
}