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    "id": 648689,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Muhia",
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        "legal_name": "Wanjiku Muhia",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker and Hon. Nyokabi. I commend the good work of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. I wanted to oppose this amendment. In my own opinion, I feel that the drafter was trying to bring in two political parties which possibly could have been FORD(K) and Wiper Democratic Movement (WDM). We must have political parties that are regional. If a party has three Senators, you look at three counties that neighbour each other. They can easily bring three Senators and governors. We will then have three neighbouring counties benefitting from this fund and we continue building the tribal cocoons that we always want to move away from. The main parties such the ODM, CORD or Jubilee Party have Members all the way from Rift Valley, Nyanza, Coast, Western and Eastern regions. I would like to oppose because I do not want us to have regional political parties on tribal basis. If WDM was guaranteed this they would get Kitui, Mwingi and Machakos. They would not need to move out of the Upper Eastern and they are funded. So, the drafters might have wanted to make the WDM party and the FORD(K) party to benefit from this and so I oppose."
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