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"content": "(Resumption of debate interrupted on 3.6.2025)"
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"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."
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"content": " Resumption of this debate will start with Hon. Caroli Omondi, who was the last person contributing to this Bill. He has nine minutes. Hon. Caroli Omondi, proceed."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. My friend, Hon. Toroitich, and I have really waited for this opportunity to get to this Order. This is another Bill from the Senate. I rise to express my reservations about certain provisions on it, and also acknowledge the very heavy challenges it presents to our democracy. Moreso, it is insensitive to public interest. It elevates the interest of the political class above all other members of society. Its objectives are also short-term. Let me go straight to the point. In our constitutional system, it is individuals who go for elections and get elected. There are two pathways through which individuals may access political office. An individual can choose to run for office as an independent candidate as the Member for Migori or Hon. Toroitich there. The other pathway is to join a political party and be elected as a member of a political party. Political parties are not elected in Kenya. None of these pathways is superior or inferior to the other. They are all equal; whether you are elected as an individual or as an individual within a political party. Unfortunately, this Bill entrenches the selective funding of only political parties to the exclusion of independent candidates. This is discriminatory and violates the principles of free, fair and credible elections. This is because it gives undue advantage to those who choose one pathway and tilts the level playing field, rendering fair competition impossible in such an environment."
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"content": "I will give you an example. The Political Parties Fund is divided into three ways. 70 per cent of the funds go to political parties on the basis of the votes their members garnered in any election, whether it is a Member of County Assembly (MCA), Woman Representative and everybody else. If you contest as an independent candidate and win like Hon. Fatuma and Hon. Toroitich, you do not get a share of those funds, yet the votes of whom they defeated were added to those in the tally of the political parties. They run and fail, but they are compensated for that. That is how unfair it is. We must therefore, look at this Bill and expand the scope of political party funding to independent candidates as well, so that there is one level playing field."
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"content": "To give people a perspective of what goes on, if you look at Section 24(1)(a) of the Political Parties Act, the funds that go into the Political Parties Fund are 0.3 per cent of all the National Government share of revenue as divided by the annual division of revenues. That number was Ksh5, 292,300,000 in 2023. Jubilee Party got Ksh1,020,104,806 while my party, Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), got Ksh1,331, 392,198.30. This is according to the Auditor-General’s Report of the Financial Year 2023/2024. Those who are elected independently do not get a share of that. 15 per cent of these funds goes to those who are elected according to the number of seats you have won. If you run as an independent candidate and win a seat, you do not get any compensation. Hon. Temporary Speaker, 10 per cent goes to those who belong to special groups. If you get elected as an Independent candidate, and you are a Member of a special group, a youth or as a person with disability, you do not get compensated. This is how unfair this is. So, we will be proposing amendments to expand the coverage of the Political Parties Fund to include independent candidates."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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"content": " Hon. Caroli, would you still make that line of contribution? If you looked at the provisions of Article 4(2) of the Constitution;"
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"content": "(Suba South, ODM) Which says, what? Remind me."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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"content": " Does the Table have a copy of the Constitution? It is always good to hear the thoughts of Hon. Caroli and do not worry about time."
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"content": " Okay. 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."
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