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    "id": 461764,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/461764/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2644,
        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
        "slug": "john-muriithi-waiganjo"
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    "content": "For political parties, this is time they became lawful and behaved with fidelity to the law. The Political Parties Act will come in handy to regulate the manner in which our political parties work. Letting candidates lose without disclosure of funds is what has made leadership in the past become a domain of questionable characters who get into power without clear explanation of how they got their wealth. We are aware that there are people who will look for money from anywhere because nobody will question their sources of the funds. That is where laws like that one of money laundering should be looked into closely so that when we get people in leadership, we are sure that those people are in leadership by dint of their integrity and ability to lead. That is why you find that other people fund candidates for their own narrow and selfish interests. I know there are people who will never run for political office because, perhaps, they cannot run a successful campaign. However, what they do is to get and fund a candidate. When the candidate gets into Parliament or any high office, he becomes a captive of those campaign financiers. That is not leadership. It is, therefore, very important for candidates to make a disclosure of where they get their funds because that way, we can be sure that the money is not from drug pushing or other hideous ways. Candidates who get into leadership by using a lot of funds, their first thought and action when they get positions of leadership is to pay back what they use. That is how you get corruption in political circles becoming rampant. With the control and regulation of how a candidate will disclose how they will spend their campaign money, it will be good for this country. In the last campaigns where harambees were not allowed, the campaigns were actually very smooth. In fact, it became so easy for candidates who did not have funds to attend as many functions as they could. For instance, churches would not entertain candidates if they did not have a harambee function. I am sure candidates who do not have resources would find it very convenient when this law is passed. Our voters need to be educated so that the culture of handouts is discouraged. By passing this law I am confident that our political campaigns will never be the same again."
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