Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 84569,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/84569/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 258,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
        "slug": "john-mbadi"
    },
    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the biggest problems we have had in this country has not been the procedure of appointing people but the procedure of coming up with suitable candidates. We need to have an elaborate procedure of short-listing the various candidates who would effectively be interviewed later to become members of the Commission. So, it is important that this Bill includes the procedure for short-listing. I also want to say that I am a bit uncomfortable with the role that is given to the Public Service Commission (PSC) in appointing the Commissioners. You realise that we have been complaining about unfairness and lack of transparency in appointing various public officers in this country. The PSC has been accused of unprofessionalism in appointing various State officers. So, giving them such a huge task as we have given them without adequate checks, to me, amounts to perpetuating the same old vices that we have been complaining about. Therefore, I feel that the PSC has been given too much power in this case."
}