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    "id": 1482650,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1482650/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": "One of the grounds that Mr. Rigathi Gachagua is being accused of is the issue of shareholding. He said that Kenya is a company with shareholding. However, in his response, he told the House that he did not mean that. He was talking about political parties. He enlisted the political parties that have formed coalitions within Kenya Kwanza, including FORD Kenya, the African National Congress (ANC), the Pamoja African Alliance (PAA) and all other parties that formed what is called “Kenya Kwanza Coalition.” I want to contradict what he said. Political parties are national in nature. FORD Kenya is a national party. The ANC is a national party, all the political parties that formed the Kenya Kwanza Coalition are national. In this country, you are not allowed to form a tribal party under the Constitution. You are not allowed to form a religious political party or a mulima political party. That is very clear in the Constitution and if the Deputy President is not aware of that, I can read it out for him. Article 91(1) of the Constitution states: “Every political party shall – (a) have a national character as prescribed by an Act of Parliament; (b) have a democratically elected governing body;” It also says in 91(2): “A political party shall not – (a) be founded on a religious, linguistic, racial, ethnic, gender or regional basis or seek to engage in advocacy of hatred on any such basis;” like what he does sometimes. You cannot equate political parties to what the Deputy President has been propagating for the last two years in this country. The Deputy President told Kenyans in no uncertain terms that Kenya is a shareholding company and if you did not vote for Kenya Kwanza, you do not have any shares."
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