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    "id": 1037509,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Katoo ole Metito",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Janet Marania Teyiaa",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move: THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations on its consideration of the Accession to the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, November 17, 2020, and pursuant to the provisions of section 8(4) of the Treaty Making and Ratification Act, 2012, approves the Accession to the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance by the Republic of Kenya. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is one of the six African Union Charters that were supposed to be ratified by the African states. Kenya had previously ratified five of them and this is the sixth one. If this House ratifies this Treaty, Kenya will be compliant to all the six AU charters as follows: (i) The African Charter on Human Rights and People’s Rights. (ii) The Protocol to the African Charter on the Human Rights and the Rights of Women in Africa. (iii) The African Youth Charter. (iv) The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. (v) The African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption. Those five have been ratified by Kenya. The sixth is the one before the House and it is on the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance. This treaty is basically about adherence to the universal values and principles of democracy and respect for human rights. It promotes the respect for the rule of law, periodic free and fair elections, consolidation of democratic institutions and the rejection of unconstitutional changes of government."
}