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    "content": "Assembly et cetera, and say that these are the votes cast, I am not sure what Mathematics this is. We really should think a little bit more and see whether what we are doing is the correct way to do it or not. We are talking about opening 1, 1450 party offices. Honestly, what for? Does anybody seriously believe that somewhere in a ward in Kasipul Kabondo or Mukurweini, that that office is going to be so active 365 days in a year, 24 hours per day? Never have I seen it. I would like somebody to stand here and show me in which ward this is happening for all the political parties. As my Committee on Education, Information and Technology has been going around the country, we have seen a lot of offices, but I have not seen one opened. They are all locked. Is it necessary? Should the party not put that money into better use than having an office in the middle of nowhere? In any event, should it not be a party decision which offices they want to open and which ones they do not want to open rather than force me to open a party office in an area where frankly I am not going to get any votes? I heard my colleague saying that there are areas they do not want to float a candidate in their generosity. They do not want to float a candidate to support the opposition and vice versa . Sometimes it is just self-interest. If you know you cannot win, then what is the point? Madam Temporary Speaker, my point is to do with the efficiency and operations of a political party. Who is going to oversight this money? Who makes sure that this money is properly spent? With regard to the oversight role, what happens is that at the end of every year, the Secretary-General of a party puts together documents that go to the Registrar of Political Parties. In my experience, the operation itself, unless you have a very efficient and financially based political party Secretary-General, you will find that those documents are not in place. When the documents are eventually taken to the Registrar of Political Parties, the capacity of the Registrar of Political Parties offices is really wanting as far as oversighting is concerned."
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