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    "content": "started going wrong. The politician who wanted to become president or prime minister of this country had to look for money all over the world. That brought us into ideological conflicts. This brought many problems because everybody went out to look for money to come and seek political power instead of looking for money to educate his people to understand the meaning of a political power. Nobody went to seek for funds for Kenyans to be more enlightened. It became an individual game. Madam Temporary Speaker, therefore, we have to think whether we can be proud that money will come from the Exchequer to be given to political parties. We should ask ourselves: What are these political parties? We have big names there. Look at the manifesto of these political parties. They just pick a copy from somewhere and make it their manifesto. So, there is nothing new. The other thing that I think will be a problem is the issue of the Auditor-General to audit politicians in a country called Kenya. That auditor will have a lot of problems because in this country, we have not changed our mindset. First of all, we should decide which direction we want to take. Do we want to promote political parties to become like the political parties we know or do we just want to sing a song here? For example, if you release about Kshs10 million and give it to an office in Nyeri or somewhere else, the first question is, who is going to manage that money? We have failed our institutions because of corruption which started many years ago and we do not want to hand it over or distribute it to political officials. I think this country needs serious thinking about our future but for the current leadership in positions today, we can accept money for political parties but what next? It is in the Constitution that political parties need to be supported by the Exchequer but our challenge today is how this money will be used. Our challenge today is whether we are ready from top to bottom to manage our political parties differently. When you look at them now, they are all ethnic movements and not political parties. It is not even a political party but a movement of individuals who sit together and connive about who is going to be the president. It is the various tribes like Kisii, Kikuyu or Kamba and other people who decide where to go. So, let us not deceive the country that we are in a position to run this country the way it is envisaged in our Constitution. I think we have to think twice but since we cannot stop this situation, time has come when we should change the situation."
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