Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1593315,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1593315/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 783,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": " There could be disagreements which will keep it, and when those disagreements are going on, some may even end up in the Political Parties Dispute Tribunal. The House will be hung not knowing which is the majority side and which is minority. So, these things have far-reaching ramifications. The problem with the growth of our political parties, and their maturity, is the Political Parties Dispute Tribunal and the Court. I wish this Bill was looking at that, instead of disbanding the Office and creating a commission with all the expenditures we cannot deal with. Currently, a party like Orange Democratic Party (ODM) will sit and say, Hon. Kaluma ideally, by conduct, should be deemed to have resigned from the party under the Elections Act provisions. The decisions parties have been making are in good faith even though, others are malicious. However, in each of these cases, they go to the Political Parties Dispute Tribunal while others even skip that Tribunal which we empowered when we first sat under this new Constitution in the Departmental Committee of Justice and Legal Affairs Committee. They go straight to the High Court and the courts, instead of sustaining party decisions duly made, like these many others floating around here, not those ones which are malicious and we can separate them... But to the extent that people are now saying that even if they misbehave and do whatever they want, the decision on that matter will be made beyond the elections. Look at even our ODM Party today. You have ODM Party members supporting somebody who is working with the World Bank there, and you cannot enforce. You have to take such provision to discipline them, to bring them back in line, to support the Broad-Based Government where all of us are. They will go to the High Court. You see Hon. Caroli laughing, and for very good reasons. So, if we are going to strengthen our parties, then the Political Parties Dispute Tribunal and our courts must know that we are in a multi-party democratic state, and the parties have organs and systems through which they decide fairly. If there is fair decision within the meaning of Articles 50 and 47, the decision of the party should be allowed to stand and any dispute taken by an individual affected should in any event be expeditiously determined. That way, we can contain parties which are going overboard in breaching the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}