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    "id": 850586,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "South Mugirango, KNC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Silvanus Onyiego",
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        "legal_name": "Silvanus Osoro Onyiego",
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    "content": "at least one member to the House should be funded. This is because we have offices to run as political parties. As you have seen, the purported major parties come to the purported small parties during the campaigns. That time they use all manner of terms to convince them to support them. I have seen Hon. Duale dismiss the small parties and I saw their party running up and down seeking the support of those small parties for them to retain the presidency. I saw ODM running up and down looking for the purported smaller parties and right now they are dismissing them and terming them smaller parties after the money has come. In my view, we are not very honest to ourselves. The political parties in this country are personalised. They go on personal level. If we have to grow as a country, we need to institutionalise them. We need to come up with structures that even upon the exit of any party leader, the party still stands. As it is right now, even the parties which say they have staff in the office, those staff are simple flower girls. They just sit in the office. They cannot give any instructions. Even in this House, whipping is done by the party leaders. The party leaders call the members and give them direction. It is never a round table discussion. It is never a discussion of Members of Parliament. They are actually not major parties."
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