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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "For information so that we do not take it the way we are doing, political parties have their anchor in an Article of the Constitution. It is for that reason that they are required to have a national character. When you go to the Political Parties Act, they receive public resources. You raised a very valid point about the not more than 0.3 per cent or even less, I am aware, in the Political Parties Act that, once they receive that money, they must account for it. So, when the Auditor-General brings his reports to this House, which committee should look into those reports and report to the House so that the House, through its other committees such as the Committee on Implementation, can pursue the resolutions? These are matters we should address in a manner that shows that we also want the institutions called political parties to be properly run as very innovative institutions of public governance in our country. I thought this is what we should be addressing because there is a need. What he has raised is true. Neither Public Accounts Committee (PAC) nor the Public Investments Committee (PIC) or the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs has looked at those audited accounts from the Auditor-General. Can the Auditor General be said to be acting in vain when he faithfully brings to the House reports on the audits of political parties? This House should suggest a way of handling those reports of the Auditor General. That is the point. I will not worry so much about those that have not submitted their reports because they should be dealt with in the manner I am sure Hon. Midiwo knows very well. The Registrar of the Political Parties is supposed to deal with the offending parties in the manner provided for in that Act. Hon. Midiwo, because you had not finished, please finish."
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