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    "id": 1479807,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, you have to appreciate Sen. Osotsi. He needs to be careful with his wording now that he is Deputy Party Leader. I agree with him, but I was talking about quantifiable contribution. For example, you and I pay Kshs50,000 monthly to UDA party. Maybe the MCAs pay Kshs20,000 and there are others that pay Kshs10,000. That is what I meant. We need accountability of the party fund. It is very critical. Madam Temporary Speaker, you have been a Secretary General of the ruling political party. You sign cheques and run the accounting of the political party. In future, some of the Secretary General of political parties must appear before Parliament and tell us what the money we contribute through subscription is used for. I hope Sen. Osotsi is taking this seriously because we are using public funds. Members of the party contribute and you are also given money by the Exchequer. So, you need to tell us how you are using that money. Madam Temporary Speaker, I hope you get back as the Secretary General of UDA party. Some people do not understand what it means to be a Secretary-General of a ruling party. As a level-headed person and a sober leader, you need to get back to be the SG to fix a few things here and there, Madam Temporary Speaker. That is the point and I am happy to see you are excited about it and God willing, you need to be in that position again. We need accountability and the financial statements from these offices to be tabled in Parliament, to tell us on the exchequer money and member subscriptions. We need transparency and accountability from political parties, so that we kill briefcase parties and to also not suffocate political parties who want to grow and expand in our country. Some of us have ran a number of elections but for my law lecturer Sen. (Prof.) Tom Ojienda, this was his maiden stab. Some of us ni chuma ya kitambo kidogo . You can see the frustration of members as you go to a general election. People run with any political party. That is why you see political merchants running around in Parliament and others get nominations through the bedroom while for others, nominations are given on the streets. We need to create a clean-up on management. I agree on the public audited verification and the availability of list of all members of political parties. You remember the chaos we had some time back but I thank you for assisting us. We migrated en masse like wildebeests crossing from Tanzania to Kenya. We heard Tanzania’s President, Samia Suluhu Hassan saying that wildebeests from Kenya go to Tanzania to get pregnant and then come back. Madam Temporary Speaker, you assisted us when we were migrating. We had to sign many letters. We went to the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties (ORPP), Ms. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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