Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 778227,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/778227/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 306,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2960,
        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
        "slug": "james-opiyo-wandayi"
    },
    "content": "You heard the Leader of the Minority Party speak very eloquently about agriculture. It will be hard to assume that you will register some reasonable economic growth rate on the basis of rain-fed agriculture. It is only in this country where I see that kind of an assumption. This country will only undergo transformation in the area of agriculture if we embrace irrigation. But what have we seen in the last few years? For instance, the ambitious Galana Kulalu Project. I was in the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives together with my good friend, the Chairman of the BAC, Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah, and we saw what happened. That ambitious project fell flat under the weight of massive corruption and outright theft. I still wonder if those Israelis are still in Galana. They were brought in to supposedly help us manage the project. It is a shame that, that ambitious project fell down before our own eyes. I understand it has been taken to the National Youth Service (NYS). I wonder how the NYS is going to succeed where a full Ministry failed. I have also heard about housing as a key agenda item in the big four agenda. You make housing a key agenda item and then go ahead and lump it together with other mega departments called infrastructure, transport and what have you. The moment you do that, I am extremely concerned. Thank you for giving me two more minutes, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The moment you remove the Department of Housing…"
}