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    "id": 1137924,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "question that the courts have determined as to who deems you to have either promoted the ideals of another political party or who deems you to have formed or to have done whatever is provided for in the particular article. It is good to note that the particular provisions in this Clause are just as they were in the original Act save for determining the question of who deems you to have done all the things you are being accused of. The courts have upheld that there was no law that determined who deemed. What this now does is to determine that question. I can see the Leader of the Majority Party agreeing with me. Who do we give the powers to deem you to have contravened the sections that are in that particular Clause? The proposal as it is, gives the power to deem to the Registrar of the Political Parties. I had a lengthy engagement with the Leader of the Majority Party on this issue. The proposal I had was to corporatise the office of the Registrar of the Political Parties so that you do not leave the question of who deems you as a Member to have contravened any particular section to one individual. Therefore, I just want Members to know that as we vote, we are giving powers to the Registrar of Political Parties, that is, one individual, to determine or to deem you to contravene whatever you will be accused of. The Clause also creates some sort of due process which is a good thing. However, that due process again, ends up in the office of the Registrar of Political Parties. That is a risk and I want to point out to Members that even as we vote, do so with that in mind. I beg to move that we delete the particular sections that will make it easier for you to be deemed to have either formed a political party, joined the formation of another political party, are joining another one, or promoting the ideology interest and policy of another political party. The risk is, if we leave that particular responsibility to one person, there lies a danger and it will only come to you as Members of Parliament because it is you who, if deemed, will lose your seats. I must state here that I run no such risk, but in due time, many or some of you will see the folly of what we are doing today. I rest my case."
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