{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=147890","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=147888","results":[{"id":1497082,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1497082/?format=json","text_counter":77,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dagoretti North, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Beatrice Elachi","speaker":null,"content":"The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."},{"id":1497083,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1497083/?format=json","text_counter":78,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dagoretti North, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Beatrice Elachi","speaker":null,"content":"founder of Jerusalem Church of Christ, Prophetess Mary Akatsa, on 26th October 2024. Hon. Speaker, the late Prophetess Mary Akatsa, a legendary preacher, was born on 2nd December 1964 in Ebusiralo Village in Luanda, Vihiga County. Prophetess Akatsa typifies the unwavering resilience and determination of the girl child. Having lost her parents at the age of about eight years old, she had to work extra hard to shape the path that led to her destiny. In her quest to earn a living as an orphan, the late Prophetess Akatsa moved to Nairobi, where she worked as a house help in Kikuyu, Kiambu County, until she left to do God’s ministry. Her journey as a prophetess began in Muslim Area, presently Kabiro Ward, in Nairobi County, where she founded the Jerusalem Church of Christ and was the first to ever bring us a person she called “Jesus”."},{"id":1497084,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1497084/?format=json","text_counter":79,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dagoretti North, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Beatrice Elachi","speaker":null,"content":"Apart from preaching and healing the souls of the people, the late Prophetess Mary Akatsa also healed lost futures and transformed the lives of many young people in Kawangware where her church is domiciled. She will be fondly remembered for substantially contributing to the rehabilitation of hundreds of youths in Kawangware from drugs abuse and crime by counselling them, offering them a place to call home and providing them food and other basic needs. Those acts of mercy by the late Prophetess Mary Akatsa through her Jerusalem Church of Christ, substantially reduced insecurity in Kawangware and will surely outlive her life. The departed Prophetess will also be remembered for her unique approach that blended Christianity with African traditional spirituality, characterized by vibrant music, drumming, chanting and spirited faith healing. She will also be celebrated for her strict enforcement of Christian values, including punctuality. The no nonsense late Prophetess never tolerated lateness for church service and had no patience for congregants who came late to her church."},{"id":1497085,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1497085/?format=json","text_counter":80,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dagoretti North, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Beatrice Elachi","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. Speaker, as the late Prophetess Mary Akatsa will be laid to rest on 16th November 2024, she can be celebrated as a woman who contributed immensely to the growth of the African evangelical movement in Kenya. I take this early opportunity to condole with the family and friends of the late Prophetess Mary Akatsa and the Christian fraternity for the loss of that extraordinary servant of God. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."},{"id":1497086,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1497086/?format=json","text_counter":81,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Yes Hon. J.K"},{"id":1497087,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1497087/?format=json","text_counter":82,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dagoretti South, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. John Kiarie","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker, I also thank my twin Member of Parliament for Dagoretti North for honouring the late Mary Akatsa with this eulogy and presenting it to the House of Parliament so that we can communicate it to the world that a great Kenyan has gone to be with the Lord. Prophetess Mary Akatsa was not an ordinary person. She was a person of great exploits, rising from a hustler to become one of the biggest household names in Kenya. I have got to say that while her style of evangelising might not have been your usual, it would have been curious in the way she approached it. I remember as a young person being told of a story of “Jesus Christ” coming to Kawangware and departing Kawangware in a Peugeot 504."},{"id":1497088,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1497088/?format=json","text_counter":83,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"You know very well that is not true. Yes, Hon. Osoro."},{"id":1497089,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1497089/?format=json","text_counter":84,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"South Mugirango, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Silvanus Osoro","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I also join Hon. Beatrice Elachi in mourning with the people and the Christian fraternity for the loss of Prophetess Mary Akatsa. My family has so many children named Mary Akatsa, Ishmael and Lorna, because Lorna happened to be the mother of Mary Akatsa and Ishmael happened to be the father of Mary Akatsa. I was a young boy when I attended her service, and Mary Akatsa told us that Jesus Christ had visited us in church. I must confess that I believed her then because I believed that I had seen Jesus with my very own naked eyes. Later, I got to realise that it was the passion of Christianity that she had in her that pulled her and pushed her to even create a Jesus by herself, and I believe now she has met the real Jesus even as she rests. May her soul rest in eternal peace. Thank you very much."},{"id":1497090,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1497090/?format=json","text_counter":85,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Thank you, Hon Walter Owino. Next Order."},{"id":1497091,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1497091/?format=json","text_counter":86,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."}]}