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    "id": 123674,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/123674/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kabando wa Kabando",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 31,
        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the adoption of this Report and congratulate the delegation that represented our country in the 11th Session of the PAP from 18th to 29th May, 2009. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, many organs, including the African, Caribbean, Pacific and European Union (ACP/EU) Joint Assembly and the PAP deliberate on very serious issues at international fora. We also have our own East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). They do focus on serious issues, given the connectivity of the serious Members nominated by Member states to these institutions, without any localized bias. The issues so discussed almost without fail, are adopted by this House. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are issues of reforms that have been suggested; that, this Report seeks to get endorsement by this House. More importantly, there is the question of adherence. After adoption of these reports, the process of executing the proposals carried in them is the main challenge, not just for this House, but also the Government. I remember, last year, the ACP/EU Joint Assembly meeting in Vienna, Slovenia, addressed the issue of Kenya very specifically in details. It did also focus on issues that we have thereafter discussed in this House and passed as either legislation or policies that are being carried out by the Government, including the issue of mainstreaming the youth and creation and spread of wealth, so that it can cover the largest and most critical of the segment of our population. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the question of Kenya domesticating international conventions, and we have since done a number of issues in this House and in the Government by the executive to implement some of those issues. But the need for synergy, the need for Members of Parliament to actually be oriented and cultured on such important report as this 11th Session of the Pan-African Parliament that seeks to give a platform for the African focus that is necessary to bring the best potential in leadership"
}