The Service Party (TSP) is among top ten political parties in the country which have fully complied with the political party act of 2016. This was revealed on Wednesday in a report by the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties presented at the political parties compliance meeting with party Secretary Generals. TSP  Internal affairs Director Wambui Kimathi welcomed the good news in a tweet saying;

‘’Delighted that @TheServiceParty, according to a report by the @ORPPKenya is among Top Ten most compliant parties.The report was presented at the Political Parties Compliance Meeting with Secretaries General going on in Nakuru @Hon_Kiunjuri Congratulations TSPerians. #Twajiamini’’

The Act envisages realization of gender equality in the formation, participation and management of political parties .

 

Political parties are equally required to incorporate in their rules, procedures on mergers and coalitions. This means that a political party is at free will to merge with another party by either forming a new outfit or merging into an already registered party.

The law however cushions members of the merged parties to continue to serve in such elected office for the remainder of the term.

 

Other areas of compliance include procedure for changes to party particulars, internal party dispute resolution mechanism, and updated nomination rules for election of party officials, and nomination of candidates for elections.

 

During the meeting the registrar of Political Parties Ms. Ann Nderitu called on the political parties to clean up their membership register through appropriate technologies The Service Party has already embraced the technology

 

Ms Nderitu insisted on the need for parties to review their manifesto and ideologies to align

them with the challenges facing the nation.