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    "id": 944848,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Lari, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jonah Mwangi",
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        "legal_name": "Jonah Mburu Mwangi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I am now well-versed in this Bill. As I support this Bill, I am more concerned about the 53 per cent that we are sharing out to the two big parties. We are creating two big monopolies which will receive 53 per cent of Kshs4 billion which is more than Kshs2 billion. This will leave all the other parties with very little amounts. It gives a lot of control to the two parties. I propose to the Committee to share out this money. Maybe they can give 40 per cent to the big parties in the House and then find a formula for apportioning the remaining 60 per cent to the other parties. The Bill does not give us clear guidelines on how to share out the other monies among the other parties. It talks about how a party must have five members. I am also concerned about that party that does not send Members to Parliament but it fielded candidates in all the constituencies. Unfortunately, a National Super Alliance (NASA) or Jubilee wave came but that party had all the tenets of democracy. They had special interest groups like women and youth but none of their candidates won a seat to come to this House. They are also entitled somehow to get a share of the parties’ kitty. I request the Committee to find a formula of how to include those people to get some money because they had invested so much in the party. My other happy thing about this Bill is that we are trying to bring to par the equality of other people. When we go to dais, we need the people who are organising political parties to make ramps so that the disabled people can come and talk so that we have equal access to the facilities that we have in this country. When we are trying to bring equality and equity to all the people, the youth and the disabled should also be given a chance to talk. Today, I only see our disabled people staying back there, they cannot even be seen. We need to make sure that we bring them closer so that we are able to see them. We need to give them more opportunities to talk. The other one is the nomination criterion. I am happy about this Bill because it has said that during nomination, the nomination list must have at least a third of each gender. It is not actually the people who will be nominated, but that the nomination list must have a third of each gender. Why? We do not want to contravene other parts of the Constitution. Section 38 says everybody has a right to choose their leader. If we present 100 candidates and we have 30 women and 30 men and women, then if the people who are choosing decide to choose all the 100, it is their right. We do not want to violate one part of the Constitution trying to amend the other part. I am happy about this part on nomination criteria which says we must have a third of either gender. I am happy that we are talking about all categories of the people that we want to include in this Bill; the youth, the disabled and other groups, but I am more concerned about the marginalised. The Chairman is here and can hear me. We want a clear definition of the"
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