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    "id": 816371,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/816371/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tongaren, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Eseli Simiyu",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "I am convinced that I will not move the amendment to drop the name of Mrs. Lucy Ndung’u. Her appointment is good riddance to political parties. I believe that she is the cause of the muddied political space in this country. She was the Registrar of Societies when the multiparty wave came in. She was in charge of the break-up of the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy (FORD) Kenya and the original FORD. She was also in charge of the mix-up in the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Kenya. She is the architect of the muddied political space. That is why I am saying that the only reason I will support the Motion is so that she can leave as the Registrar of Political Parties, so that we clean up that space. I am not being unfair to her. Sometime in the 10th Parliament, I had a privilege to travel to South Africa under the sponsorship of the National Democratic Institute (NDI). During that time, the current Speaker of this House was the Chairman of the Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) and was also on that trip. We were going to see how the Political Parties Liaison Committee works. We studied how the Political Parties Liaison Committee works at great expense. We were supposed to come and implement it here. What Mrs. Lucy Ndung’u implemented is a mongrel - it is a not a Political Parties Liaison Committee. She did her own things and purported to be doing what we studied in South Africa. She totally failed. That has caused some of the problems we have at elections. We get this animosity between parties that cannot be solved. It is supposed to be solved by the Political Parties Liaison Committee. She was in charge of implementing that, but she failed."
}