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    "id": 1203325,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "If you want to argue that Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition is a political party and not a coalition of political parties, the question you would like to ask or address yourself to is this: What are the legal provisions for registering a political party? They are clear. You must have 24,000 members, at least 1,000 from majority of our counties, which are 24. Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition was exempted from that because it is a corporate political party. When you say that this is not a coalition, the next question you will ask is where in this country, out of the 47 counties, does Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition has a registered party office? It has none. Yet, that is a requirement in law to register a political party. The reason why Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition was accepted to be registered is because it is a corporate political party. So, the moment ODM, WDM-K, Jubilee and KANU have registered offices, then Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Coalition in effect has registered offices. Hon. Speaker, it is in that same reasoning why Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga was cleared by Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) when he presented his papers. There was a requirement that he should present signatures of proposers and supporters. Those signatures must be from members of your political party. Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition does not have even a single direct membership. Therefore, Hon. Raila was cleared after being supported by members of KANU, Wiper, ODM and Jubilee. Therefore, those members of KANU, ODM and Jubilee are all members of Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition as a corporate entity. The moment you are a member of ODM, by extension you are also a member of Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition. Therefore, this reasoning that there is no member in this House who is a member of Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition is faulty. There is a gentleman in this House whose name is Junet Sheikh Nuh Mohammed. This gentleman is the Secretary-General of the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition, and he is representing the people of Suna East. He is registered with the Registrar of Political Parties as the Secretary-General. Then you come here and want to say that Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition does not have even a single Member of Parliament. That, completely, is misrepresentation of facts."
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