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    "id": 636596,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "This is happening because we are using political parties for purposes of forming county governments. If you go to county governments, you will realise that there is almost no opposition. If you go to areas that are dominated by certain political parties, you will realise that all the wards are represented by people from the same political party. At the end, there are no checks, alternative voices and ways of seeing things differently. We should look at national parties against the whole idea of regional parties. We need to have cadre parties for purposes of national arrangement. We should allow parties even if they are affiliated to the national parties at the regional or county levels. This is happening in Germany where we have of course the bigger parties but in each and every state there is space for political parties. I know this is not here but if we want to recognise it, we can because we now have devolution. I know there is a leader of the minority party in the county assemblies. However, in many counties this is not filled up because you get a situation where all the members of the county assembly are from one particular party. In my view, there are problems in counties because there are no other arrangements that are able to counter this."
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