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"content": "proposing that we make it six months and not three years to elections. In case of a by-election, let us agree it is one month before a by-election. If we make it three years, then all of us will be disqualified from participating in 2027. Let us make it six months to the general election. We should ban public officials and elected Members of Parliament (MP) from conducting a fundraiser. The fine should also be reduced from Kshs5 million to Kshs500,000. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on the issue of submission of permits, I do not see the need of a cabinet secretary. They are too busy to regulate harambees. Let us ensure that they are not part of this. How will they do that if they cannot even come here to answer our questions? What are you telling us? Will they be able to approve permits of Kshs250,000 in my village, Mosoriot? Let us be honest. What is a cabinet secretary doing issuing a permit when they cannot even do their job right? They should be left to do other more important things. Let us avoid this. The cabinet secretary and the CECM should keep off the harambees. Let the Government keep off. We should let the people self-regulate. The law should regulate harambees so that they are not used at the expense of others. The Cabinet secretaries are too busy. We have given them more responsibility than regulating harambees of Kshs250,000 conducted somewehere in Mosoriot, Chemumbe Village, Kaptel, Chemamul or Setek in Tinderet. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I totally disagree with auditing of harambees, especially the private ones. If I have raised Kshs250,000 to do a funeral expense, why would you do an audit on it? In fact, you will be using more money sending Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) officers to come and audit Kshs250,000 that are meant for funeral expenses or to send a child to school. What is this? The KRA has more important things than auditing fundraisers. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let us give the standard on the issue of taxation and the KRA involvement in auditing. Let us say, if you raise, especially public fundraising, like the Safaricom Kenyans for Kenyans--- I have never understood why, when your Safaricom data expires, they take it away. In my opinion that is corruption. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when we have raised Kshs100 million, for example, let KRA and others audit. However, you do not need to burden KRA with little amounts of money. We have better things to do in the country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will only support this law if it is only to give a regulatory framework on how to conduct an harambee in a simplified version. Let us not create bureaucracy in terms of conducting harambees. Let us allow the church and public places to do the harambees. Let us allow Kenyans who have economic burden to do private harambees for medical and compassionate expenses. Let us allow Kenyans to do harambees to send their children to universities. I agree there is a progressive university funding model, but it will not touch every Kenyan. There are many young men and women who are in school The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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