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    "id": 1094832,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1094832/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiminini, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Chris Wamalwa",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "Secondly, when you read Article 90, it clearly says that it is political parties that nominate not independent candidates. Article 38 of the Constitution, under the Bill of Rights says: “Every Kenyan has a right to join a political party of choice.” So, if you are an independent candidate like Hon. Shabbir, you decided and therefore, you have no option to nominate. However, as a political party, there are efforts you put in place. There is so much that you go through, to register a political party. That is why under Article 90, it is the political parties that nominate. For you to nominate somebody in a party, it is about rewarding performance. We have something in the political parties called party loyalty. If you nominate someone in advance, there will be no party discipline; he/she can decide to go his way. You know how difficult it is to remove someone from this Parliament as a result of party indiscipline. Many people have tried. ODM tried but failed. So, it is important that you will measure somebody’s performance, you will measure somebody’s party discipline and then you are assured the role this person has contributed to the success of your political party. That is why it clearly says that the political party will be given seats to nominate proportionately, depending on how many seats you have won. If you have won many seats, you will be given more seats to nominate proportionately. It should reward the people who contributed in terms of getting those positions. How will you measure somebody’s performance, if the results are not yet out? Until the results are out, that is when you will see the value that someone contributed to that particular county. Yester night, I heard Governor Kingi talking about how much he contributed in terms of the performance of ODM in Kilifi. After the results come out, you can measure somebody’s performance. Prof. Victor Vroom in the theory of expectancy and motivation talked of the issue of instrumentality. That you reward someone based on the performance, what you bring on board. So it is important that we should amend this. It is not an issue of slay queen or boyfriends. No. we are saying, let us nominate after elections. You will have measured somebody’s performance. I have talked about the issues of party discipline. Once some people know they are not on the list, they relocate and move to somewhere else after elections. This is about the discipline in the party. That is why it adds value for someone to be nominated after the elections."
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