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    "id": 1010894,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I wish to support this Bill in principle. I am saying in principle because I have not had time to look at it in detail, but if there are issues, I will look at them and perhaps make suggestions on amendments. When I was listening to the Mover, he said that one of the things the Bill seeks to do is to ensure that Members are not doing fundraisers throughout. I do not know what throughout means in law, unless he is the one that has put it loosely. You must put a timeframe. I know there was a Bill that Hon. Anyang’ Nyong’o had brought that indicated that fundraisers would stop eight months to election. That was very difficult to adhere to because if you stop Members of Parliament and elected leaders, but you have people vying against you who continue with fundraising, then it totally becomes impossible. So, if you wanted to stop fundraisers, it should be across the board. It cannot only apply to Members of Parliament when you have competitors doing fundraising all over. I want to suggest that there used to be something called DDC, which was assisting in development in the community. I think we need something like that, but not sort of what we had which was executive heavy. You need one that also has Members of Parliament. I am saying that because I have noticed in my constituency that when you have church fundraisers, you sometimes find in one weekend you have about ten fundraisers and the next two weekends you have one or none. If there was a way people could coordinate how fundraisers are done, so that you do not overwhelm elected leaders, and people now feel like they need to start finding different ways of making money, then Members of Parliament and other elected leaders would not be called corrupt when there is actually a pull or a push from the ground."
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