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    "id": 647672,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mati",
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        "legal_name": "G.J. Munuve Mati",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. This is an important point. Given the high number of political parties that Hon. Duale has given us, it means that there is a big battle of audience. I want to congratulate him for bringing up the backlog of political parties audits. We are heading to an election and one of the weaknesses we have as a country is that political parties are not institutionalised. They operate on the whims of many political parties and individuals. The other day, I talked about Personal Political Parties (PPPs). Unfortunately, nothing stops us as a country from using public funds to fund political parties that are not democratic and Family Political Parties (FPPs). In FPPs, the families decide the events of the party and the people to be nominated. We go further to fund them as elected Members of Parliament through the FPPs through a check-off system. I am a good example because I used to contribute Kshs30,000 until I was dewhipped. We both lost because I cannot now contribute Kshs30,000 because I do not have it. I want to challenge us to form an interim special team to clear the backlog. We have to sanitise these political parties. I do not think it makes sense to have 60 to 80 political parties in a small country like ours. We need to scrutinise each and every political party. The audit should not just be financial one but management and structural so that we can determine whether these are political parties or institutions owned by families or a club of friends. We can then determine the political parties that can enjoy the funding of the taxpayer. In a country that is as poor as Kenya, we cannot fund institutions owned by families. I come from a poor county- Kitui, which can afford to give Kshs48 million to the office of the governor which could have been used to construct 15 boreholes. In Kitui County, citizens walk 40 kilometres to get water."
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