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    "id": 850562,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": ", it also provides that an accounting officer for a national Government entity, the Parliamentary Service Commission and the Judiciary shall be accountable to the National Assembly. That is for ensuring that resources of the respective entity for which that officer is the accounting officer are used well. So, the Registrar of Political Parties is the accounting officer in as far as the political fund usage is concerned. Of course, the various accounting officers in political parties also account to the Registrar of Political Parties. The threshold on who can access political parties fund is well stated in the Political Parties Act. I am happy that there are only two parties that can access these resources in this 12th Parliament. They are the Jubilee Party and the Orange Democratic Party. I am very sorry to say that the rest have to fund operations of their small briefcase parties, whether you call it the Wiper Democratic Movement – Kenya (WDM-K), FORD-K, the Amani National Congress (ANC), KANU or PDR. The URP is now part of the bigger JP. We have not signed any coalition agreement with these small briefcase parties which are ethnically oriented and regionally compliant. The only two parties that cut across the political, regional, ethnic and religious divide are the JP and the ODM. I am not campaigning for them. I am just stating the facts as they are so that you have a choice to either join an ethnic-led party or the ODM and JP which are national parties. That should be the truth. The other option left is that of an independent. Those who want to be members of small parties, you have to pay the price. The Exchequer will not fund your activities; you must be a parliamentary party. Hon. Osoro is not even from a small party, he is from a small of the small party. He is the only one representing his party in this House. The party leader of that party has left. Peter Kenneth has left. So, your party leader has joined the JP. It is very unfortunate. You cannot be a party leader of one MP. You cannot be, unless you are not a serious leader. If you read Article 95(4)(c) of the Constitution, it provides the role of the National Assembly. It includes oversight on national revenue and expenditure."
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