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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 326,
        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": ", he pays taxes. These are taxes which are going to pay for this fund. The taxes are collected nationally and, therefore, the parties that are going to benefit from this fund must be national. We must ensure that the law makes them national. That is what I am saying! So, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as much I would want to commend the Minister for bringing this Bill, I wish the Departmental Committee on Administration of Justice and Legal Affairs contributed to this and their Report came out, ensuring that where the Minister has not been able to capture some aspects that are important, they should have been captured. I wish that Committee--- I saw the Chairman of that Committee being very emotional about this Bill. This Bill does not belong to a Committee or a person. This Bill belongs to us all. It belongs more to the people who are outside this Parliament. I wish they had delved into the Bill seriously without emotions, fear or favour. They should have even asked us to go to a workshop for us to give our input and information so that we make this a very good law. Otherwise, if we go ahead as it is today without amendments or working on it more seriously, we are going to enact a law which will survive for, may be, one or two years. Or it will be a law which may not be, in my view, implemented. As I said, I could challenge why my tax would be paid to a party that does not obtain from where I come from; that does not have hon. Members from where I come from. Why would we pay for them? We can see these things coming and it will be a constitutional right. Why do you tax me to pay so and so, yet I do not benefit from him? Why should you tax me to pay so and so who has a April 25, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 963 different idea from mine, yet I have no chance of ever getting that fund? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to support the Bill with a caution that, probably, we go for a seminar and look into these ideas thoroughly. Let us not hurry on these things. This will ensure that when we come out with a law, it will be one that the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs will be proud of for the rest of our lives. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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