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    "id": 662971,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "It is with a light touch, but I know that the distinguished Senator for Meru County and the other man from Western Kenya, called hon. Noah Wekesa, have been crisscrossing the country going to Western to pay a few idlers to go attend their meetings to show that there is presence of Jubilee Coalition in Western Kenya. I assure them that there is no presence of Jubilee and there will none in the foreseeable future. One of the amendments in this Bill is to obligate political parties to hold meetings. That is unreasonable. While we encourage political parties to be active, the most critical event in the calendar of a political party is election time. You cannot force political parties that throughout the five years, before election, they must be everywhere in the country. There are some political parties that will have representation, but will not qualify for funding. We cannot say that if they do not go to all these places to hold political party meetings and other activities, they will suffer some penalties. That is draconian and should not be accepted. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, equally important is the manner in which the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties runs. You may recall that when we conceived that office, it was an office within the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). However, the Jubilee regime has wickedly, so to speak, maneuvered and transferred the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties to the Office of the Attorney- General where even as required by law to appoint an impartial person to be the Registrar of Political Parties, Ms. Lucy Ndung’u continues being a Jubilee agent working for Jubilee working in an office where the Attorney-General is a confessed Jubilee Coalition person. How can she be fair to other political parties? 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"
}