Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 731445,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/731445/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 427,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 12482,
        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
        "slug": "kenneth-odhiambo-okoth"
    },
    "content": "The Member for Juja raised a sensitive point about the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nairobi and people whose homes may have been taken and the need for justice and reconciliation in Kenya. I agree with him totally. I feel their pain, but also that is a sensitive issue that we cannot just speak superficially to as politicians when it is people’s real lives. There are people in Rift Valley whose land was taken. The coalition that is ruling this country today is made up of principals from those two communities. That included your people who were burnt in a church in a Kiambaa and have never been given justice. We are not talking about The Hague here. We need a local tribunal. We need local people held accountable. We need all the people from your community who were moved to other places as IDPs and compensated under special programmes under the Ministry of Devolution. Why were they not allowed to go back to their real land? So, when we talk about the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) Report for my people in Nairobi and the ones you are talking about, they are your people and they are my people, I know who you are talking about. The fact of the matter is that we have petitioned former Cabinet Secretary (CS) Waiguru and the current CS Kiunjuri. He has been completely deaf to the plea of the IDPs from Nairobi County. He says they have been paid. In Nairobi, there is no political clout to be gained by engaging the needs of the poorest IDPs in the City. Yes, they exist. I thank you for bringing up the matter and I share it with you. I hope we can, through the aisle, bring it up to the people who are more powerful than us in this country to say: “Let us face this.” We looked at the TJRC Report. We found some truth but we The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}