Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 949760,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/949760/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 355,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Samburu North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Alois Lentoimaga",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2756,
        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
        "slug": "alois-musa-lentoimaga"
    },
    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity. First of all, I want to send my condolences to the family of the deceased. This is a very unfortunate incidence. I want to support my colleagues for being united and strong in supporting this issue. This is an issue of laxity, carelessness, recklessness and negligence. It is only being reactive and forgetting what has happened before. The one thing I realised when watching on television is that the ramp is always lowered all the time even in the middle of the channel. This is unfortunate, I do not know why it should not be lifted as it used to before. If it is not working why not even use a simple barrier? This will help so that when a vehicle drifts down it can be stopped by the barrier or a simple rope like what ought to have happened to avoid this tragedy. This is not just an issue of the Coast or ferry services in Mombasa. It is all over the country. Kenyans forget and organisations are only reactive. We forget tragedies that have happened easily. We can blame the Kenya Ferry Services, the Navy and all Government institutions in this country. For example, in Northern Kenya, we also get drought almost every two years. We know it is coming when the rains fail, but we do not take any measures. We start lamenting when the drought is already here. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we come from the same region. Look at insecurity in the North in Laikipia, Baringo and Samburu. We deliberately disarmed the local people who used to support police in fighting cattle rustlers and bandits in those areas. They did this without caring. In the last two weeks, more than seven people have been killed in my constituency and animals driven away. Those killed include a teacher in Baragoi Town. The security forces were told there was marauding bandits who were coming and had been seen and intelligence was all over the place. But the security agents forgot, they did not care The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}