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"content": "Treasury and starts being benevolent and generous, purporting to be “giving”. There is nothing like giving. You are respecting what the law says and you have a duty to do that. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we want to see the office of the Registrar of Political Parties streamlined to make it easy for political parties to access information, services and support that they require in handling party matters. It is almost two years since the law was changed to provide for the appointment of the Registrar of Political Parties, but nobody is appointing one. That is the person who is supposed to administer this fund. If the whole office is illegitimately in office, then how do we hold her to account for any illegitimate decisions that she may be making? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when you have coalitions that are respected and acknowledged by the Constitution, the Registrar has arrogantly rebuffed agreements that are sent to her. For example, within the CORD fraternity, we sat down and agreed that the money that comes to CORD shall be divided as follows; ODM this much, Wiper Democratic Movement (WDM) this much, FORD-Kenya this much and a percentage to the CORD secretariat. We issued with our hand and seal; Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga, Hon. Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka and yours truly, Sen. Moses Wetangula. We then sent the agreement to the Registrar of Political Parties, but she just threw it away and said she is not going to recognize it. This level of arrogance must be checked. We are a coalition that has sat down and agreed that we are not telling you to give us any more than we are entitled to, but we are telling you, when you are disbursing the funds, disburse as follows; this per cent to ODM, this per cent to WDM, this per cent to FORD-Kenya and this per cent to our secretariat. We sent her four accounts to do a Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) to each account in accordance with the percentages. If they are not able to calculate the percentages, we will send our officers to calculate for them so that she can remit the money. However, she could not hear any of that. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when you have a public officer who behaves like that, then it becomes difficult to run political parties and any other institutions for that matter. What is killing this country is extreme arrogance. In some parastatals, the board sits and dismisses erring managers. A Minister sits back and says it is nonsense and one should go back to the office. We cannot run a country like this. This is the surest highway to anarchy and the breakdown of law and order. If we pass laws, we must respect them. So, I hope that this mediated version; I heard the “lower” House debated it and they unanimously passed it. We should also unanimously pass it. I will request Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale to speak with Hon. Wamalwa and advise him that we plan to quietly kill his Bill when it comes here. We do not need it. Whatever he has in his Bill is incorporated in this mediated version of Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale’s Bill. Since it has already passed in the “Lower” House, we cannot strangle it in the air. It has to get here. If it is a child, we will malnourish it until it dies. It is already here. So, I encourage Members to get ready to “ nyonga” it when it comes to the Floor so that we do not get ourselves into a confusion of having two Bills carrying the same philosophy and doing the same thing aiming at achieving the same objectives and, more particularly that, they come from Members of the same side of the coalition. Therefore, it is important that we let one go and have one crumble and fall by the wayside. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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