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    "id": 461744,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/461744/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13129,
        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
        "slug": "isaac-mwaura"
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, election campaigning has also influenced the way political parties are owned in this country. You will find that political parties are perceived as clubs and most of the times they are owned by the few rich people. You may have political parties that have good ideas but because of funding levels, they do not even make it to become parliamentary parties. Therefore, this election campaigning will have a ramification because we have also agreed as a country to also fund political parties as part of Government expenditure. Therefore, if we can also influence the declaration of how these political parties are funded by way of elections, because most of our political parties come alive during elections, then it will also have an impact on the quality of leadership. It will have an impact on the decisions made by political parties and by extension Parliament because the only way to gain political power by legal means is through political parties. So, therefore, I think this is a very timely debate. It also encourages accountability in order to fight corruption. We have heard variously how people keep on asking for good leadership but then it is not going to be achieved if the only way to achieve this good leadership is through acquiring political power through corruption. This is because why would a candidate spend more money than another? It is simply because they want to bribe voters by giving them handouts and by trying to seek favours."
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