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    "id": 826410,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/826410/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 49,
        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
        "slug": "jeremiah-kioni"
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    "content": "As it is today, there are two or three big parties that receive the funding. We know the money is being used by the political parties, but how it is used is determined by very few people. We may have the reports that we have today and tomorrow, but decision-making in the majority of these parties is still concentrated at the top. It will be good to see this money trickling down to the counties and constituencies so that the parties are grown from there. The Special Funds Accounts Committee will help us more. I am sure they have the ability to do that to ensure that the statutes provide for the way the money should trickle all the way down to the ordinary members of the party. We are very active or vibrant near the elections. You see parties with big offices and huge things that talk of a lot of money, but immediately we are done with elections, the following day, the exercise is to close offices, so that resources are left at the top. We need to ensure that these funds find their way to the ground. We need to see party offices being established at the grassroots level. In so doing, those who are mistreated by the party would not be mistreated because the party would have time to grow from the grassroots. The people at the grassroots will have a better voice when it comes to us being elected. As it is today, we have branch chairmen and secretaries and the rest, but when it comes to elections, they do not have a voice. The voice is still left with the Leader of the Minority Party who is still a minority even at the top and he decides how the majority will behave down there at the grassroots. This is because we provided for a lot of money. I can see the Leader of the Minority Party here."
}