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    "id": 1137781,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kimilili, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Didmus Barasa",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua",
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    "content": " Thank you for giving me this opportunity, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended by deleting Clause 10. This clause says that if a member of a party promotes the ideology of a different political party, that person will seem to have resigned from that political party. We need to be very careful because this clause runs the danger of being misused. I say so because we have pre and post- coalition agreements. Today, this party called UDA has a coalition agreement with the Jubilee Party. When Members of this party promote the ideals of the UDA, they are within the confines of the coalition. They are simply supporting a party that is within the political party. We should not give an opportunity for anybody to misuse this clause and begin to chase members from their party. If we want to build democracy in this country, you must strengthen political parties and we also strengthen the freedom of association so that people can join parties of their choice. So, I seek to delete this section because it is a bit punitive, which will give room for misuse. I want to ask Members from this other side of the House to support this amendment because we are making these laws for posterity, not for any particular individual. Tomorrow, you will be in a coalition and you will be championing the interest of a sister party within a coalition and if the chair or the party leader of that party is a dictator, you will be thrown out. With those very few remarks, I move."
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