{"id":721557,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/721557/?format=json","text_counter":185,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Wamunyinyi","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":291,"legal_name":"Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi","slug":"athanas-wamunyinyi"},"content":"I am proposing this because we want to retain the high quorum – a quorum that is enough, representative and will ensure that whatever would have taken place--- The quorum is eight. What is proposed is reducing the quorum to seven. I do not wish to see the quorum being reduced to 7.5. Let us retain the quorum at 8. Two-thirds is 7.5 but in the original Act it is 8. We, therefore, wish to propose that this amendment is deleted so as to maintain the status quo ."}