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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support this Motion. Despite the fact that this is a constitutional requirement to have this Bill in place, it is also a very important Bill. The reason is that election financing is the key to good governance. Most of the challenges that we have been facing in this country in terms of our leadership is more associated with the way we finance our elections. I agree with the Members who have said that almost 90 per cent of why one should be in this House is determined by how much money you have. The reason why the current House has a number of young Members who have been elected is because during the last elections, even though this law was not in place, rumours had spread that if you give people money openly, you will be arrested and you could be disqualified from contesting. So, to some extent, those who had money and were out to give it out to bribe the electorate realised that they had to do it in a very secretive way. To some extent then, our politics moved from more of cash campaigning to issue based campaigning and the people who put their points forward to the electorates in the best way got the votes."
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