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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I can talk for long. We need to put in law the role of political parties under the presidential system of Government. The National Super Alliance and Jubilee parties must be funded by the Commission. We must have a secretariat and offices where we can do party caucuses. In other jurisdictions, there are party caucuses every Tuesday. We must have specific infrastructure designated for political parties and parliamentary political party caucuses and paid by Parliament. The Kenya Women Parliamentary Association (KEWOPA) must be recognised in this law. Other caucuses in Parliament that are just hanging must be anchored in this law so that if today the Women Members of Parliament want to meet, it must be in law and it must be upon the Clerk of the National Assembly to provide the resources and the infrastructure like offices and the secretariat to work with. This Bill is very important. Let us not trivialise it. We must establish a mechanism for the House to collaborate with relevant bodies. Let me hasten to finish and allow my colleagues to make their contributions. We shall bring serious amendments in the Committee of the whole House. In fact, as leadership, we will go for a retreat and come up with amendments. This is a presidential system. Today if you go to the USA House of Representatives, the Congress, you are told you cannot meet the leadership because the party caucuses are meeting. In fact, every Tuesday of every week, the parties must have a parliamentary group meeting within Parliament, where they decide how they will deal with business of the whole week. But here we come and you see we are about 10 or 20 of us in the Committee of the whole House. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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