{"id":983873,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/983873/?format=json","text_counter":238,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":124,"legal_name":"Samson Kegeo Ongeri","slug":"samson-ongeri"},"content":"Thank you Madam Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to weigh in on this subject. We have a pandemic. In 1990 we had a national disaster in the name of HIV/AIDs. I was then the Minister for Health. We had to persuade the President to allow the National Assembly to have a special sitting in the Continental Hotel in Mombasa for it to be declared a national disaster for obvious reasons."}