Yes Timothy and rest of Wanabidii,

Unless I am not fully informed of the legal implications therein, the deadlines so far been beaten by the ongoing party registrations and re-alignments are meant to secure only those parties that meet certain conditions by the said or set 31st December deadline. Indeed, many other so called small parties are now in the print media calling to the Registrar of parties to extend the time for another six months for without such an official provision, all others are locked out!

You know what Wanabidii, if there is a legal counsel among you or us who can be trusted, let’s kindly move very fast, collect contributions from us and file a court injunction on that deadline. Otherwise, we are indeed doomed!

AND DO NOT DISCUSS ANY OTHER THING ON THIS FORUM FOR NOW UNTIL THIS IS DONE FOR ITS CRITICAL – JUST TRUST ME! MOVE AND BLOCK THAT DEADLINE! OR LOOK FOR THE SECRETARIAT OF THE NATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY CONGRESS AND INSTRUCT! MARKYOU WE HAVE ONLY TUESDAY 23RD, & WEDNESDAY 24TH, THEN, MONDAY 29TH TO WEDNESDAY 31ST! WANABIDII!!!!!!!!!

Vicky

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To Vicky and all Other Wanabidii

And indeed you are may not be fully informed. And I have been to the Registrar’s office on this matters and I even purchased a copy of the Act just to clear things for my self

A party seeking registration will first pay 100,000, provide a copy of the proposed constitution and an office. Upon which it will get provisional registration. This will allow the party to operate as any other party but will not field members for public office. This is to enable it to get six months to fully comply with the stringent requirements for a party to be registered. So our six months counts from the moment we walk into the registrar and get a provisional registration. In fact our strategy for working early next year was to ascertain the numbers of parties that made it before embarking on registration.

The Parties that the Act found in operation for purposes of compliance and transition to the new Act are operating as Provisional parties until after six months which ends on December 31. It is those parties that were in operation before the act came into force and by Dec 31 have not met the requirement that will be locked out

But if we were to apply for a new party, we will get six months to comply with the rules. The Registrar also clarified that you do not have to get offices in all district but you just have to make provisions in the constitution that you will do so in future. I assume that will be possible after funding.

But if we were to register today for provisional license chances are we will have to miss out on funding. By the way all the parties may miss out on the funding as they have not complied with the 30% requirement for women (this does not make them get deregistered as the Women are calling for according to the Act)

Here are the stringent rules

* You must pay 100,000 for the provisional license and 500,000 upon full registration 6 months later

* You must have an office for provisional registration

* You must have at least 200 founding members after six months of provisional registration in each province (1600 members in total who are not in any other party. You agree with me an organized team of youth will easily get this numbers)

* You must have a member in each district within the 6 months

* You must have at least a third of all party organs occupied by either gender to get funded

* You must make returns on the funding, how it has been used and the officials

* You shall not receive funds from aliens

I consider these conditions attainable especially when we were to target 75% of Kenyans

If you get a person in each constituency you will have made the district quota. ECK was operating on 74 districts. Gazetted districts are actually just 44. District plus those politically created are somewhere close to 150. That’s why changes are being proposed that the constituencies become the districts. If we had 2500 people paying 1000 we have 2.5 Million. That will get us 12 months rent for 50,000 a month house in the leafy suburbs as an office and furnish it with the most necessary facilities. Then we will have made the 600,000 (100,000 for provisional registration and 500,000 for full registration 6 months later, and some change to do other things that we want to do.

I also consider it an opportunity as by getting registered, the progressive forces will have made a statement and will have a voice as only few parties will be in the scene as opposed to previously where even if you had genuine intentions to change the nation you were taken to be a joker trying to get some quick buck as parties were so many.

So that deadline is a kiss from heaven. If we are serious we should embrace it. If we can get our act together we can get to register early next year.

How would the political party Act bar registration of other parties when the constitution guarantees freedom of assembly and the constitution reads like something this ‘any law that is in contradiction with it will be null and void’ remember the Act is an ordinary Act of Parliament not a constitutional one which would require two thirds of the house to pass.

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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:20:47 -0800 [12/22/2008 05:20:47 PM CST]
From: nicholas oyoo
Subject: Political Party Act Heaven Send if we Play Wise