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    "id": 630530,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am not aware Hon. Injendi is a Member of a briefcase party because as far as I know, he is one of us and a Member in his own right. The logic I am giving is that Kenya is a multiparty State, but there are so many crooks on the streets that are holding briefcase parties that they can only have one Member of a county assembly and enjoy public funds. In an electioneering period, if somebody feels aggrieved by The National Alliance Party (TNA) or ODM, they grab the next party possible which is not organised. That is a dangerous usage of public funds. The threshold must be high and political parties must work to gain greater public support. Lastly, now that we are talking about parties, I want to urge all of us that as we make these laws, we should make further amendments for political parties to gain greater independence and accommodate all of us, so that there is no need to run away and join parties that are imaginary. I want to further say that when you go for elections, which is what we largely use political parties for, we want to urge the Government to lessen and do away with the usage of State power. I was in Malindi until yesterday and I saw the use of the military. I want to take this opportunity to warn Mr. Mwathethe, the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), from getting into politics only one year into an election period. It is wrong for the military to participate in electioneering. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations and I will make sure that as we debate their budget, we will teach them a lesson. They cannot use the military for that reason. After all, they are in Somalia trading in charcoal. We will tell them the truth."
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