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    "content": "Most of our parties are the galaxy of looters and violators of the successive regimes; they represent nothing but the continuation of looting. For one to tell me that they want to preserve ideology by allowing people not to shift parties is wrong. I am a creature of hopping. If I had not hopped from ODM to Wiper I would have been a member of the ODM pressure group in Mombasa County. Therefore, let us not undermine a fundamental ideal of association. This Report is not good to that extent. It tries to curtail freedom of people from moving from one party to another. This country is moving very dangerously from an autarchy to an oligarchy. There used to be a rule of one man during the President Moi regime but now there is a rule of a few men either in the Jubilee administration or even in the opposition. By institutionalising oligarchy we oust the principle of democracy. We have fundamental concerns about how parties have been institutionalised to discharge a constitutional obligation of being free and democratic. I have listened to the passionate debate by my friend and colleague Sen. Murkomen but we live in Kenya; people buy party positions, leaders and patrons buy party positions. They can buy positions and oust you, notwithstanding your competence. Therefore, for us to pretend that we will lock these people from electoral competition--- We know people choose sycophants and those who contribute to parties. We must allow this until Kenya becomes organic in terms of building an ideology. That ideology will come from some of us who are hopping parties and finally come to the realization that we need to institutionalise visions and ideologies within political parties. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, however, I support this Report because in many respects it has given extraordinarily good recommendations which will break the impasse that is present now with respect to the electoral process. I speak for the minority in the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). This Report has also brought extraordinary bad blood politically. Some of us have to constantly respond to the constituents who claim that there is no due process. Everybody must face a due process while implementing this Report. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support what Sen. Orengo said. I have not seen a Committee where if you look at the minutes, every Member attended every meeting. I think everybody appreciated the weight and the seriousness of this meeting. Definitely there were Members who missed once or thrice but on the overall, everybody did the best in the process. Finally, in terms of the timelines, they are reasonable. I support the audit of the register and the timelines set with respect to the 30th September, 2016 and the auditing of the register by November so that---"
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