Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 881031,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/881031/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 420,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Horr, FAP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Chachu Ganya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 18,
        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
        "slug": "francis-ganya"
    },
    "content": "In committees, we have technical experts who advise. We have seasoned clerks, fiscal analysts and lawyers. With all those resources available to us, and eventually the reports that come to the Floor of the House are approved by the Office of the Hon. Speaker, we wonder how we get a progress report from oversight committees. I served in the Public Accounts Committee in the 10th and 11th Parliaments and we used to call them post-mortem committees. What was audited by the Auditor-General eventually came to us and we made some determinations. Here we are talking about a progress report. This is the first time I have heard of it. Sometimes when there are some issues of national concern and committees take a very long time to deliberate and deliver a report, the Speaker might demand for a progress report just for the nation to know what is going on. We now have in the PAC Report recommendations that are unconstitutional, yet we have legal experts. As Parliament, under the Standing Orders, we are allowed to outsource experts if we do not have them in Parliament, so that by the time business comes to the Floor of the House, all issues have been sorted out and we are able to spend quality time to discuss them. This is not space for media issues, for sessional reporting or for people to get their bonga points. This is a House or Assembly of the people of Kenya. It is a House of representatives. We are supposed to debate and deliberate on issues of national concern and make resolutions to take this country forward."
}