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"content": "[The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Farah Maalim) took the Chair]"
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"content": " I would like the departing Hon. Temporary Speaker to pay attention."
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"content": " He is hearing whatever has been said."
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"content": " No. Only God is omnipresent."
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"content": " Okay. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. What I am trying to clarify is that multipartism does not only simply the number of parties. It is about the multiplicity of pathways to elective office. That is multipartism. It is not about how many parties exist. You can have a pathway as an individual. In Kenya as I have said, individuals are the ones who are elected, not parties. An individual may be elected through association with others in a political party or by standing alone as an independent candidate. That is what multipartism is. I think that was meant to derail me, but let me continue now."
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"content": "The second serious area of concern in this Bill is the proposed establishment of a commission to manage the Political Parties Fund. They are proposing that we create a commission of five persons who will serve on the same terms as members of other independent commissions, to manage the Political Parties Fund. I know it is a large sum of money, as I have given the breakdown. But let us look at what is happening in other sectors. 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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"speaker_title": "Hon. Caroli Omondi",
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"content": "As of 25th March 2025, we only had 91 registered political parties in Kenya. Today in Kenya, we have the Registrar of Societies, which regulates both cooperatives and churches. There are 82,000 churches and cooperatives that have been registered. We have an office of the registrar of persons dealing with births and deaths for 57,000, 443,180 Kenyans. We have the registrar of lands who administers 12,000,788,311 titles. We have the registrar of marriages who administers 1,000, 607,237 marriages. We also have registrar of companies and business names who administers 1.5 million companies, 847,000 business names and 299 trusts. What is so special about the political class that they need a commission to oversee the management of political parties? I will ask for more time as I was guaranteed by the Speaker. This is an example of the political class abusing its own power. If the issue is how to manage fair distribution of Political Party Funds, then we should have an advisory council. I will be moving amendments to that effect so that The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) nominates a lawyer to that Council; The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK) nominates a member; and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIARB) nominates a member so that we have three specialised people who are independent and can arbitrate. I will also be moving further amendments…"
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"content": " Clerk, give the Member an additional three minutes."
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"content": " We should also remove the barriers that have been established by dominant political parties for the establishment of new political parties that will compete with them and in particular, the requirement that a new political party must be present in 24 counties. This is an imposition of dominant political parties to stifle competition. My right to form a political party cannot be made contingent on having a thousand members in other 24 counties. The Constitution does not contemplate that. I can have a political party for myself and my wife as long as it is national and does not promote sectarian interests. Being national does not mean physical presence with offices in 24 counties. I will move that amendment to remove that. Finally, we will remove Section 14(a) to give Members of Parliament freedom to act as independent Members of this House. According to that section, Hon. Kaluma by now, should have been deemed to have defected from ODM because he is associating with UDA under something called broad-based government. I will be moving an amendment to that Clause too."
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