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    "id": 1496937,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Oburu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 194,
        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
        "slug": "oburu-odinga"
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    "content": "are made the guests of honour, they come with huge sacks of money that they have been given by their friends. Let them come to harambees and contribute their own money. This is something practical. When I was an Assistant Minister for Finance in the late His Excellency Mwai Kibaki regime, we were not allowed to be guests of honour, but were allowed to do harambees. We could go to harambees. You can participate in the organisation, but not necessarily have to be the guest of honour. Let other people be guests of honour. Let your competitor be the guest of honour; it does not matter. He can give so much money, but it does not mean that he is going to be elected. When nearing elections, those harambees can be stopped for some months. However, there should be restriction in making public officers guests of honour and bringing monies from their friends. They should bring their own contributions to those harambees. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not want to say much more on this. I support that harambees should be there, but there should not be licensing for them. I do not like the idea of permits. I do not like the idea of the CECM at the county level or the Cabinet Secretary at the national level issuing permits. However, we should have a law which regulates public officers, so that they can be taken to court for doing what they are not supposed to do. This question of permits is taking us back to bureaucracy. It is creating some monsters and taking us back to the days we had left a long time ago. The permit issue made the District Commissioners (DCs) so powerful that we had to line up in their offices for licensing. They would sometimes refuse to give you a licence and give someone else just because he does not like you. Sometimes, they would refuse to give you the permit because he is supporting someone else and not you in an election, and think if you do a harambee, you were going to have some advantage over the opponent whom he supports. I do not like this issue of creating that kind of monsters. However, I support the Bill. I hope that when it comes to the Third Reading or the Committee of the Whole, we are going to tax it and make necessary amendments. I thank you."
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