{"id":823157,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/823157/?format=json","text_counter":345,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Committee has proposed that Members should be given per diem so that they can organise their accommodation arrangements. That would be a grave mistake. I was a councillor in the Nakuru Municipal Council. We made a decision to give each councilor some money for accommodation so as to meet the next day in the morning. We were only three in the meeting the following day. I was the mayor then and was present for the meeting because I had slept at the venue."}