Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 952711,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/952711/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 144,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
        "slug": "aaron-cheruiyot"
    },
    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I wish to add my voice to that of my colleagues in condoling the families of these young children. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we speak, there is something that continues to trouble me; the fact that the proprietor of this institution continues to walk free on the streets of this city despite the obvious fact that the kind of structures that the children were learning in were not fit for such habitation. You do not need to be an engineer or a specialist to see that they were poorly constructed. Therefore, by this time, he should already have been charged, at least, with the murder of those young children. He should be charged together with the people that gave him the approvals and the Ministry of Education officials who were supposed to check on the quality controls. What has happened to that particular issue? Finally, we know that there are city inspectorate departments present in almost every part of this city. This is such that even when you are putting up a structure as small as a hanging line for clothes, they will show up immediately and ask for approvals from you. How was this gentleman able to put up this kind of structure? It would make more sense if, as a House, we stopped naming the people who allow these kinds of illegalities to take place by the departments or the institutions they work for. Let us be told that the person in charge of the City Inspectorate Department in that particular region is a gentleman called Mr. “X”, “Y” or “Z”. Let us be told that the person in charge of quality control and education for that sub-county, and who seems to have been paid to look the other way and avoid keeping the checks and balances on that institution is Mr. “X”, “Y” or “Z”. That way, the history and records of this House will reflect the kind of people that are causing us all the troubles in this country. Otherwise, if we just continue referring to them by the institutions they work for---"
}