Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 983591,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/983591/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 178,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Esther Passaris",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 12475,
        "legal_name": "Esther Passaris",
        "slug": "esther-passaris"
    },
    "content": "There is an organisation in Nairobi that I fund through the National Affirmative Action Fund called the County Trekkers. Every week, the old women walk across Nairobi to Komarock Estate, so that they can have a meal together and exercise. Sometimes, they have medical camps which they enjoy. They sit and talk to each other. All these elderly people live in the informal settlements. Majority of them live alone; because the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) took most of their children. As a Government, we have to provide amenities for the old. As parents go to work and children to boarding schools, the old are left at home. They are very lonely. They need special games, care and to be free from abuse which is another thing. With a heightened sexual gender-based violence that we have in our country, the old have become a big target. The youth have convinced themselves that when they rape an elderly woman who is not sexually active, police officers will not catch them unlike when they commit a robbery. We have to find a way of protecting these women. Majority of them are raped and abused because of a myth that goes around amongst our youth which is really sad. Our police force is overwhelmed with the number of cases and are unable to cater for the old in terms of justice."
}