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    "content": "I have heard colleagues complain about the issue of registration. I want to say that there are matters we can put in the Citizenship Bill, where we can order that records by the Registrar of Persons with regard to births and deaths be electronic and be synchronized with the electoral role. That way, we can know when a person is born and when a person exists this world without having occasional clean ups of registers. For those who are against discipline in the political parties, we cannot have our cake and eat it. If we do not want political parties, let us abolish them and have independent candidates. I stand for democracy in parties and the Registrar of Political Parties must act as a Whip so that where members are aggrieved, there is swift justice. However, let us know, as members, that a political party is as good as its members. It is members who sleep on their rights and do not take their leadership to task or follow the constitution of the parties. We are the ones who are breeding dictatorship instead of good political parties. Unless we, as Members, invest in political parties we shall forever be complaining of what has happened instead of being proactive. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are many other issues I would like to mention. This is a good Bill, but we need to look at it with a toothcomb, so that when we come to the Committee Stage we strengthen it in the manner proposed by myself here and other hon. Members. I beg to support."
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