 is the first of September 2020, a Tuesday, that is the first, or this, you can say the debut of this fantastic political show that is right here starting on Y254. My name is Ram Magukko, trusting that you've had a fantastic evening. This morning, this evening, we have a lot in store for you right here on Y254. We shall be putting politics into perspective and specifically, political party progression. What next for our Kenyan political parties? We are gearing up to 2022. Do we expect to see lots of changes in our political parties and do they start for ideologies rather than individuals? Well, we shall be putting this into perspective with my panelists. I shall be joined by Karl Max Odiambo. He is a governance and policy expert. I shall also be joined by Advice Mundalo, who is a political and communications strategist, coming up in a bit. Remember, this is where we interact with you. Our handles is at Y254 channel on Twitter, at Y254 on Facebook, tag me at Ram Magukko. The hashtag is the stand. It starts right now. And as we would like to set pace right here on Y254, we shall have our panelists joining me on set. They shall take the position, giving, addressing the nation in regards to this subject matter. And introducing first Karl Max Odiambo, who is joining me right now on set, Karibusana Karl Max. Taking center stage, you're looking good. Thank you very much for joining me today. First show. This is where Ram and Advice, it's that show that we've actually been longing for. Yes, yes. More importantly, I think we need to pick it as the stand. Yes. And I would like to find out your stand in regards to this. So how best can Kenyan political parties take its people to the next level? Thank you, because talk of the stand. Sorry, you have two minutes. Yeah. Two minutes each. We talk of the stand, and when we talk of the stand, there is much to the cognisive and dissonance. Why we talk of many political parties not to be the solution to Kenyans and even to Africa. Remember, we have over 160, 160 political parties presenting candidates, presenting candidates at the national, the county, the constituency, the world elections on the ballot. More importantly, we talk of, if you look into what we are referring to as political parties, I would first of all suggest that we need to actually reduce the number. We reduce the number of the political parties in line with the ideologies. Because if you look into the political parties that we have today, basically, I can call them a business ventures because they don't stand the test of time. Since the birth of the multi-party democracy in the year 1992, floating political parties is like talking about business ventures. And this one I'll actually put it into two major reasons. One, that the political parties being, I mean, the state is providing funds for the political parties actually to assist them to run their functions. Number two, you can realize that the political parties that we're talking about is that it's about the nomination certificates that are being sold to huge numbers at a price that gets to understand. And it is the most expensive. And that's my decision. We shall continue from there. Just take your seat there. And remember, right here on Y254, we engage our panelists, giving them the platform to share their stand within a two-minute time. So coming up next is Mundalo M. Advice. He is a political and communications strategist. Garibusana Mundalo, take the stand and give us your take into regards to political party progression. So how best can Kenyan political parties take its people to the next level? Your stand. You have to meet. Thank you so much, Ram, for having me this night. And for sure, this is one of the amazing shows that we're having tonight. About political parties, we all understand that our country has been able to move from being a de facto one-party state to a de-joe one-party state. And then we adopted multi-party in 1992 through the efforts of the many who fought for it. But it's unfortunate that as it sounds today, most of our political parties are what I would call election bidders than political parties, because a political party is supposed to be driven on agenda, on ideology, and is supposed to propel a country towards a certain vision. Unfortunately today, most of the political, if not all the political parties that we have, don't stand by that fact. Most of them are actually election bidders anchored on party leaders. And it's unfortunate that the political party leaders in Kenya are more important to the party than the party is to the political party leaders. And that is the unfortunate stand. Thank you very much. You can take your seat. Remember to give us your take. That is their stand. But what is yours? Hashtag the stand.