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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "of what FORD (K) got so that it is not an amendment to serve his party only. There are many political parties that need to be supported. Secondly, one provision that many people forget is Section 25(2)(b) of the Political Parties Act which provides that the party shall not be entitled to receive funding from the Fund if more than two-thirds of its registered office bearers are of the same gender. I am glad to speak about this during the week of International Women’s Day. Many political parties existing, and I am sure many of the parties on this side, do not have two-thirds of the registered office bearers being women or men. If we do not give our women an opportunity or even in future if men do not get these positions, we are just not being smart. If a party like ODM had principles of fairness, we would have very many women elected on ODM in single Member constituencies. I can say this authoritatively because out of the 16 women elected to single Member constituencies, eight of them are from TNA. It is because of the process. When you inculcate such processes from the office bearers, the way you do your nominations and even funding women, more women and young people get elected. Finally, on the issue of having three elected Members, I was not for this initially because all it takes is for one person to get 20 MCAs elected in one county or one governor in one county and the party would be regional. The issue of the threshold still holds. In any case, big political parties which are worried that the money will become too little, even in as much as we love more parties getting into the threshold, the amount of money any party will get will still be based on the proportion and the ratio of votes garnered even if your members have not won the election. So, if your member was No.3 and got 3,000 votes, that 3,000 adds up to the total tally of the political party. So, I want to support this amendment. I Thank Hon. Wamalwa. This moves to strengthening democracy in our country. I would like to persuade all my colleagues in Jubilee to support this. It is for our interest. Even as we come together with many parties to form Jubilee Party, all the other small parties within Jubilee are also going to get money and we will have it all in one basket."
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