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    "speaker_name": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): Madam Temporary Speaker, I appreciate the point of order raised by my sister, Sen. Ong’era. But I began my contribution by saying that the things that the Mover of this Motion is citing are constitutional and legal issues. We have not debated about that, but we have also to contextualize things. That is why I said that in terms of political parties getting money, we are agreed. In terms of who is responsible, we are not agreed, because I think that it is the national Treasury. Thirdly, in terms of how that money should come, we believe that it should not be immediately, because normally money is released in quarters. If you say immediately, we do not know what that means. But having said that, I said informally – it is not even informally because that is the truth – many parties that appear to be doing well are not doing well and yet they are all waiting for money from the Political Parties Fund. I want to remind those political parties that the Fund is not supposed to solve all your financial problems. You are supposed to look for other sources of funding. So, this money from the Government is supposed to support your programmes. It is in that context that we said that we hope the Mover of the Motion who is the Secretary-General of the Orange Democratic Party (ODM), a key pillar of the Opposition, is looking at their party getting those funds so that they can fulfill their legal and constitutional obligations because, sometimes, they are known to go overboard with their obsession of the Jubilee The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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