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    "content": "It is illegal and unconstitutional to require a political party to have 1,000 members in 24 out of the 47 counties because it is reducing your capacity to enjoy political rights by saying that you cannot enjoy the right to make political choices unless there are 1,000 other members from a county supporting you. Mr. Speaker, Sir, every individual Kenyan has a right to enjoy the right political choices. Every individual Kenyan has a right to political participation, whether you are acting alone, with 10 or 20 people. Therefore, this requirement that I must convince 1,000 members from a different county to come and support me so that we can have a party is unconstitutional. To say the least, it is undermining the very fundamental right that many Kenyans died for. Mr. Speaker, Sir, regarding political party funding, I know the reason we fought for political party funding. Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’Nyong’o was with me I think in the Seventh Parliament when we formed the Parliamentary Select Committee on Anti Corruption. The reason we went for political party funding was because we discovered that mega corruption in this country comes in just before the elections. Without feasible funding of politics in this country, people are forced to use underhand methods of funding political parties and elections. We proposed that we should fund the parties from the Treasury, so that there was no need for people to go and steal just to go and fund political activities in this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, that very noble idea is being undermined. We might be talking today about some huge political parties like CORD, Jubilee and what have you, but we have said it before; which party was bigger than the ones of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and Kenneth Matiba? But where are they today? FORD Asili is gone! It used to cause waves; Nairobi was impassable when the FORD Asili crowd was passing. But today, where is FORD Asili? It is gone."
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