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    "id": 461710,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 981,
        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "The Bill sets out the functions and powers of the IEBC in the regulation and administration of campaign financing in Part II. The campaign financing provisions are all functions of the IEBC and there is a lot of detail around what this Commission can do as relates to election campaigns. In the introduction, the Bill recognizes that there are candidates who are independent and cannot be able to fund themselves because the original Bill as drafted by the IEBC was not allowing candidates to raise money through other people and, therefore, needing to set up committees. All that has been cleared by the Committee. It is now possible for one to fund himself during the campaigns and you do not need to set up a Committee. All that you will need to do is to account to the IEBC the finances that you are using in your campaign. In Part III, the Bill deals with regulation of campaign expenditure and the political parties that are funded by taxpayers have to submit campaign expenditure rules within certain timelines. The Committee was persuaded to allow timelines of up to eight or 12 months as has happened in the Elections Act which has allowed a room of eight months. Many timelines here have been revised to cover the eight months period. In Part IV, the Bill deals with campaign expenses and allowable expenses of a campaign such as matters of transport, printing, media, better political party a candidate or a referendum committee can engage in and the disclosures that are required by the IEBC. The Bill also deals with sources of contributions received during the campaigns and even limits the amount of money that a particular individual can contribute in a campaign to 10 per cent. In Part V, the Bill deals with contributions and donations and specifies the sources of funding allowing as much as possible local funds to be applied as opposed to foreign funds. In Clause 16, the Bill also looks at harambees and raising money for campaigns. Clause 17 prohibits anonymous contributions or illegal sources of contribution in campaigns. The matters of contributions and donations from the State or State institutions or agencies are also prohibited. The campaign also covers matters of surplus funds. If there is any, it could be arrived at in a campaign programme. In Part VI, the Bill provides for offences and penalties and all the matters that are covered by this law would then be offences. But the Bill also, in the report of the Committee, as hon. Members will see, we have graduated the penalty system"
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