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    "id": 826430,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "In terms of allocating them money, there is no justification in law. It does not make sense. How do we even manage that money? Each independent Member is independent from the others. Apart from sympathies that we would express to you for going through a lot to win your seat, there is truly very little we can do. The court had already pronounced itself on this 0.3 per cent. We need to respect court orders. It is my hope that the National Treasury will honour the promise that they gave us when we were discussing the last budget that they are going to factor in through the Supplementary Budget additional funds to move towards meeting the requirement in law. This is something that is in law unless you amend the law, it remains. Those of us who manage political parties’ funds, manage the funds prudently, for a fact. Yes, there are people who probably also have the appetite for using funds which are meant for public good and converting them to private good, but those can be found. This is public money. You can find it through the Auditor-General. Even the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) can conduct investigations. The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) also has the mandate to conduct investigations, but we would want to see the parties which want to manage their funds prudently to promote the interests of the parties especially the interests of the marginalised groups."
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