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    "id": 1136031,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisii CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Janet Ong’era",
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        "legal_name": "Janet Ongera",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I rise to support and I would like to request our Hon. Members of this House to listen to what I have to say, because I believe I am one of the most sober Members in Kieleweke . I want to speak from experience. I have run political parties for ten years in my previous life. One of the reasons that was most challenging was the fact that we never had provisions for coalition political parties, where you would have corporate membership. When I look at this Bill, it has provided for political parties of single member constituency. I have seen that this amendment is going to provide for corporate membership. That is a coalition of political parties. It is also providing for alliances to be formed. What better democracy can we have when we are speaking about being democratic, except by going through the way of these amendments? Secondly, one of the greatest challenges that we have had in Kenya was how to share political funding, particularly where we have coalitions. I remember, the late Hon. Kalembe Ndile died crying that he was never given his money by the Jubilee Party. I know that our partners in NASA were crying that ODM never gave them their money until recently. What better way than to have a clear provision that the Registrar of Political Parties can actually divide this money based on proportionate representation? I urge and I seriously urge my colleagues in Tanga Tanga to look at this with clear eyes. Do not be clouded by the arena of the heat of politics. History will judge us wrongly. Let us look at this with very sober eyes and look at the provisions. There is nothing that is hidden here. This is very clear. With those few remarks, I support this amendment Bill."
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