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    "id": 648640,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyugi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Augostinho Neto Oyugi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. First, I acknowledge that I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. Two, I would like to support the mediated version of the Political Parties (Amendment) Bill. The Chairman and Vice-Chairperson have ably moved it. They have explained that the purpose for which this amendment was sought was to strengthen and expand the purview of political parties that benefit from the Political Parties Fund. We are living in a country where political parties seem to be in proliferation. There are very many political parties in the whole place. Some of them are confined to particular parts of this country. It is good for our political party democracy but it is also not very good in terms of making sure that the nation is held together. This amendment is trying to ensure that if at all you are going to benefit from taxpayers’ money, your political party ought to be one that has a national face. At least, having 20 Members of Parliament would be ensuring that you have length and breadth of a couple of counties, having three governors will be ensuring that, at least, you are in three counties which ordinarily will not just be ethnic enclaves. This thing is good in strengthening political party democracy because it is also important that the taxpayer pays political parties and that political parties are not left to the behest of philanthropists who use political parties for their own ends. For taxpayers to get value for money, the political parties that are going to benefit from this kitty ought to be parties that are of national outlook. As we move forward, of course next year is for elections, we should be encouraging as many political parties as possible to be seeking for membership across the whole place. I know for a fact that the Political Parties Act requires political parties to have offices in the whole place. Any law that will be ensuring that before you benefit from the funding you must be seeking and having a national face is important. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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