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    "id": 1120914,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Madzayo",
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        "legal_name": "Stewart Mwachiru Shadrack Madzayo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you. First, I would like to also join you in welcoming the members of the Pan-African Parliament Secretariat and our Members of County Assembly (MCAs) from Kisumu. Being one of the Members of the Pan African Parliament, I would like to say that this is a very important delegation from the Pan-African Parliament because it does its daily activities at Parliament. We note that the Pan-African Parliament is a very important organ of the African Union (AU), and that it has a lot of functions that help other African governments in giving directions as to how they can conduct their business. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as it is, Pan-African Parliament also has its own teething problems. My observations to Pan-African Parliament is that when it comes to elections time, like coincidentally, some of us have been in Pan African Parliament, and there was an election that was supposed to take place much earlier in March. However, that election never took place simply because, I think in Africa we are governed by our colonial masters, some being French and some British. Therefore, we come from the Anglophone and Francophone speaking countries. Coincidentally, I did not know, but did when I went to the Pan-African Parliament, that Francophone speaking countries are more than Anglophone countries in Africa. When it comes to elections, we note that the Francophone people normally take a position. Members of Pan-African Parliament take a position and the principle of rotation, as enshrined in the African Union Charter, is not followed. I believe that my brother, Senior Counsel Sen. Wetangula here, knows this and I am glad that he has acknowledged, but incidentally, some of the rules they formed when he was Minister for"
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