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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, protect me from Dr. Pukose. He is on a serious lobbying mission, but I do not know what he is lobbying for. I hope he is not lobbying to destroy this Report. He has to get my signature and that of Hon. Nyenze. He has no choice. Your Communication was very clear. On the legal policy and institutional reforms to strengthen the IEBC and to ensure the August 2017 elections are free and fair, the Committee has recommended the number of commissioners. The Committee decided to tell us that the panel should be 80 per cent made up of men of God. I am not a son of a religious man but I am a very religious Member of Parliament. I hope those who will represent the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK), the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya, SUPKEM, the National Muslim Leaders Forum and the Hindu Council of Kenya will live up to the reasons why they were chosen. They must also rise to the occasion. On legal, policy and institutional reforms, the Committee has recommended, among other things, that the list of party members be submitted to IEBC at least 90 days before the elections. Before your name is even submitted by your party, you must have been a member of that party for at least 45 days. So add 45 days to the 90 days and you get 135 days. The names of the party and independent candidates--- That is why I said party hopping is like the way you walk to Intercontinental Hotel. You have a choice to take Coke or a cup of tea or you have a meal. It is a luxury. This country has reached a stage where political parties are funded by the taxpayers. So, the outfits that we fund through the taxation of our people cannot be the shirt you wear and throw away any time you feel like. I want to go on record: Nobody is compelling any politician to join a political party. We join parties on our own volition. We join parties because we feel we believe in their ideologies. We join parties for the unity and stability of our country. The biggest threat to our national security is ethnic-based politics. Everywhere in the world where political parties are based on ethnicity, that is a recipe for chaos. That is why in the Republican and Democratic parties of the USA, a dozen leaders competed to be the flagbearers. On the day one of them won through the delegates system, all of them said yes and attended the respective conventions. They said they would support their candidate. If we do not want to go that way, then the stability of our nation is at risk. With the passage of this Report, every political party will make sure that it puts its house in order. A party that conducts its party primaries in the most transparent, free and fair manner attracts people. However, if a party gives certificates at midnight; that you get certificates from the wives of the party leaders and their cronies, then that party will not make you and I join it. It is the duty of the political class in this House to build strong political parties. We must be in the forefront to say no to party hopping. If you want to hop, you can do it as an independent 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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