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    "id": 566561,
    "url": "http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/566561/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bowen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2256,
        "legal_name": "David Kangongo Bowen",
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    "content": "When it comes to funding, we should not just form political parties. That is because there is the Political Parties Fund. We must have political parties which have got political ideologies for Kenyans. We should have political parties which reflect the face of Kenya. The parties we have in Kenya today reflect their tribes and regions. When we talk about The National Alliance (TNA) Party, what comes into your mind is Central Kenya. When you talk about United Republican Party (URP), what comes to your mind is Rift Valley. When you talk about ODM, what comes to your mind is Nyanza. We want to see political parties which reflect the face of Kenya so that we can build democracy in this nation. There are so many petition cases after the elections. We have so many people running to the courts and others are stopped from being sworn into their offices. Election of some other people is also nullified because there are no proper political parties. So, as we move forward with this Bill, we want to bring sanity into the political parties, including their nomination criteria. Even those who are submitted for nominations like members of county assemblies (MCAs) or members of parliament, there must be some order. The corruption we see in political parties---"
}