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    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. It is an honour for me as the Member for Nairobi County to be a Member of the Pan- African Parliament. It is also an honour for us as the Members of the Pan-African Parliament from Kenya, both in the National Assembly and the Senate, to host our President, Chief Fortune Charumbira. Chief has been in the country for the last two days. He has an extremely tight schedule. He was hosted first by our Speaker, the Rt. Hon. Moses Wetang’ula and the Speaker of the Senate, Hon. Amason Kingi as well. Chief also had meetings with His Excellency the President where we were also present, including the Ambassador for Zimbabwe. As we sat and listened to all the deliberations from the Speakers of the two Houses as well as the President, we realised that the Continent of Africa has a lot of work to do. It is our hope that eventually the African Union and all the Members will realise that we need a huge budget. It is really sad that we have a deficit in our budget and we are not able to accomplish all the things that the founders of the Pan-African Parliament had envisaged. Our President is very passionate. He understands the issues from trade, to tariffs, to freedom of passage to movement within the continent. As we go into session in the month of May, we will have climate change and trade as an agenda. We hope our President will be there to give a keynote address because he is passionate about climate change and he is driving the agenda about it. We know Africa suffers the brunt of climate change and yet we are not the contributors of gasses into the environment. As Kenya, we are very proud that we have delivered our President to the country and engaged in all these deliberations. We hope that, eventually, Africa as a continent will stand firmly and maximize on its resources, consumption and production locally."
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