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    "id": 470733,
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    "speaker_name": "July 10, 2014 SENATE DEBATES 31 Sen. Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, of course, there are drops and traces like Sen. Hassan has said. Last time I saw, Sen. Hassan was operating as a director of elections of a different political party before it was bungled in Kasarani. I want to put the record straight from what Sen. Muthama said. We, in URP just like many of other political parties, have secured ourselves to have a national character. That is why we have two Members of Parliament in Busia County, five Members of Parliament in Narok County, everybody in Mandera was elected in URP, almost everybody in Turkana was elected in URP and in Isiolo, everybody including the Senator, Governor, Members of Parliament and Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) are from URP. The same applies to Tana River and many other places. The point is this; we are among the youngest political parties which has the largest national support. We have only been in place for less than one-and-half years or two years. The reason I am apprehensive a little bit about this Bill is because we want to ensure that such political parties get grounding, become firm and get owned by the rest of Kenyans. If you look at the United Democratic Front (UDF) party where the sponsor of this Bill is coming from, it has tried. The most important thing is to push that party to reach 5 per cent of the voters of the country. To do that, it is important the members of that political party propagate the ideologies of the party. Even the Mover of this Motion, to the best of my knowledge, has abandoned his political party except in terms of carrying its name."
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