28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
Hon. Mwaura, why do you want to rise for the second time on the same thing?
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
I do not think we are going to have any by-election in Lunga Lunga now.
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
Very well. I do not see hon. Mwaura prosecuting this very strenuously.
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
Hon. Gumbo, you are aware that this legislation is one of those constitutional requirements. Perhaps, the intention of the Constitution is to rein in parties to start being accountable. As you well said, in the past, they have not been accountable. So, perhaps, we are deliberately creating structures for it. Since I do not see any requests from hon. Members, can I hear the Departmental Committee Chairperson?
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
Hon. Members, I take the lack of requests as a go-ahead for me to put the Question but before I do so, Member for Rarieda, you are entitled to a reply.
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
Hon Gumbo, let me remind you, we have not done away with the Party Candidate Expenditure Committee. What we did away with in the first clause was the individual expenditure committee.
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
Hon. Departmental Committee Chairperson, could you look at it again? We want to have a legislation that is consistent with itself. I see it not only in Subsection 5 but also in Subsections 1, 2 and 3. All of them refer to Party Candidate Expenditure Committee. Do you want to rephrase all those terminologies, so that we can have a clean document?
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
Hon. Members, I want us to move very fast. This is how we are going to do it. We will re-commit this clause to allow you an opportunity to clean up Subsection 7 as we go onwards. Remove those provisions which talk about Party Candidate Expenditure Committee because we had amended the definitions. We had deleted the words “expenditure committees”. We are now talking about “authorised persons”. So, can you work very closely with the Departmental Committee Chairperson, as we go through this, so that by the time we come back to that clause, it is clean. I do not ...
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
Since one of you is a seasoned lawyer and the other one is seasoned legislator, sit down together within the time that we are going through these amendments so that by the time we will be through, we will have proposed amendments that you will be proposing. We will then clean up those provisions and continue. Let us continue.
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28 Nov 2013 in National Assembly:
So, what is the text of your further amendment?
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