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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Korir",
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        "legal_name": "Wesley Kipchumba Korir",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. What we are being taken through here, is a fight between people who want to show how their political parties are stronger than the others. The key issue is fundamental. What the Leader of the Majority Party has raised here today is a very important issue and we need to take it seriously. We are giving money to political parties. If you look at the Political Parties Act, the one Hon. Chepkong’a read, it says that every political party has a responsibility to bring their reports to the Auditor-General every year. If the political parties are not doing that, they should be de-registered. They should be taken according their offences. If you look at the Political Parties Act, it states clearly what the Registrar of Political Parties will do if those parties do not follow the rules according to the Political Parties Act. We should not be playing politics with this issue; we should give it the seriousness it deserves. We are going into an election period and we do not want to have political parties that do not follow the laws of this country, to be given a chance to sponsor people to this House. If a political party does not follow the law and sponsors somebody to come to this House, then that person will not follow the law because the father that brought him here does not follow the law. They will then come here and do crazy things that devalue this House. This is going to spoil the names of other people that came here to change this country, like some of us who came here as independent candidates. It is not a matter of who is who, but a matter of seriousness; a matter of making a decision, and deciding which committee that matter should go to. If it is forming a new committee, we should form one that is going to be serious and one that is not going to do what they are doing here. The Chairman of that Committee should be an independent candidate that is not partisan. He should come up with a very serious report that will guide us. If those political parties have gone against the Political Parties Act, we should follow the law and deregister them and have fewer political parties that will bring people with integrity in this House."
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