The Registrar J.C. Lorionokou, Assistant Registrar CPA Florence Birya, and a host of senior ORPP staff on 23rd February at Bunge Towers presented the Office Budget Policy Statement (BPS), 2026, before the National Assembly Departmental Committee of Justice and Legal Affairs (JLAC). In its detailed request, the Registrar leading the team outlined strategic programmes on the ORPP’s main programme of Registration, Regulation, and Funding of Political Parties.
Registrar J.C Lorionokou, Ass. Reg. CPA Florence Birya, Director D.N. Kinuthia, Director Joshua Kimulu, Joseph Kanja, Douglas Wanzala, Wafula Wakoko, Kelvin Yatich, as the ORPP team at Bunge Towers on 23rd February 2026, after engagement with JLAC for enhanced funding for ORPP.
The Registrar, while highlighting commendable achievements in the previous funding period, 2022/2023 -2024/2025, further set out for consideration funding shortfalls across sub-programmes amounting to over 6 billion, which included ORPP’s strategic and statutory interventions for the 2027 general elections. Key areas of forecast in 2026 include processing election matters for political parties’ participation in elections, capacity building of parties organs, undertaking legal reform in the electoral cycle, awareness and political education to upscale citizens political rights; enforcing the Code of Conduct for Political Parties, running activities under the PPLC, and ICT reform, among others. The session was coordinated by Finance, Political Parties Fund, and Strategy Directorate, headed by Director Joshua Kimulu. The JLAC, through its Chairperson, Hon. George Murugara, indicated the possibility for consideration of some of the key ORPP priority areas for funding. The Committee, on the day, also received budget proposals from other agencies under Justice, Governance, Law and Order (GJLO), under which ORPP falls in the government structures.