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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know what information Dr. Eseli has, but the Party of National Unity was registered before the elections. I stood in the nominations through the Party of National Unity and I got a certificate from this party. I was a candidate of the Party of National Unity and I came to Parliament as a member of the Party of National Unity. I think the hon. Member is confusing the PNU Party with the PNU Coalition or Alliance which are two different things. However, I am a member of the PNU. The point I am making is that we actually have a situation in this country where, obviously--- We have seen the rigmaroles even during the political party nomination where the whole public comes to participate in the nominations. Even those who are not members take part because it is more of a test of the strength of candidates rather than the party membership. These are the things that we need to sort out so that we do not have political party hopping where Member “A”, a certain Wanjiku, Kamau, or Onyango goes to elect a member under party “A”. The same people will line up the next day to elect another Member through another nomination exercise under Party No.2. We must stop these things and I am very happy that the provisions that have been put in this Bill to have the party--- I hope it will come out clearly in the electoral law that all party members should be registered with the Registrar so that people do not end up participating--- We do not see that in the churches. If the election for Catholic Action Members or Catholic Men Association is called in the Catholic Church, you will not have members of the PCEA, the Anglican Church or the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church going to elect members for the other church. Unfortunately, this is what we have been taken through because we call ourselves a multi-party State, but we have never embraced the real spirit of multi-partysm in its true sense. It is painful. If you do not have members, do not go to the public. I hope we will be able to capture a number of these things. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other thing I want to mention here is that political parties are the equivalent of the churches. Churches take our religious faith. Political parties are the manifestation of our political faith. If you believe in one thing and join that party, you believe in it and you die with it. I am saddened every time we have issues in this Parliament, we have to whip Members to come and contribute rather than looking at what we, as a party, stand for. I do hope as we go into the new constitutional dispensation, especially with the President and the Cabinet residing outside Parliament that this Parliament will be a Parliament of mature politicians who have allegiance to their political parties and can take a political stance and say, “our political party stands for this and this is the issue we will support in this Parliament.”"
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