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"content": "that needs to give a platform that would cultivate greater interest on what is happening in the North, South, Central, East and the West. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there needs to be a system within the House, either through the communication that is established for Members of Parliament through their e-mails and through respective constituency websites and brochures so that wherever we speak as Members of Parliament, in Government or in the House, or even representatives of Committees or delegations like this that was very ably represented, we actually represent the voice of Parliament based on reports that we have adopted. It is very gratifying that this delegation, with their counterparts from the other countries of Africa, addressed the question of Africa moving toward one nation. They talked about the common markets. We are talking about creating architecture in the African Union, including the architecture for sports and re-constituting the Supreme Council. That means the heads of States giving endorsements and they have already given a go ahead that, that needs to be done. Therefore, restructuring the institutional mechanism of the African Union, the Pan-African Parliament, or the East African Legislative Assembly; being important organs that will make the African more proud and more benefitting from schemes of social or political or economic welfare, generated by the respective countries. That is why it is important for us, as a country, to appreciate that, as a continent, we have solutions to our continent, and those solutions cannot be demarcated to nations. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we cannot say that we want to think as Kenyans when we are faced with questions from other African nations. We cannot say that we want to think as Kenyans when we are being focused and interrogated by the international community. I have heard a lot of colleagues from this House and from the Cabinet saying that we do not need foreigners to talk to us, yet we are members of the United Nations. In fact, the Mover of this Motion recently received accolades and awards at the UN level. These are Members of this august House representing Kenya in the United Nations, African Union organs and in the Pan African Parliament and yet you want to tell the rest of the world, as Government Ministers, as premier leaders in the executive that, Obama and Ocampo and Kofi Annan have no business speaking to us. Yet the National Accord that we seek to implement is the foundation and basis of the Grand Coalition that is implementing joint manifestoes, is from the work of the African Panel of Eminent Persons chaired by His Excellency Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, through our own reports in this House, the Kreigler Report, the Waki Report, which were unanimously adopted by this House; we invited international interrogation and investigation in order to redress questions which we ourselves have failed to handle maturely and ably. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Kenya is the only country in the whole world that set aside a whole day, non-working to holiday and to party in honour and in celebration of the son of Kogelo, the son of Kenya; His Excellency President Baraka Obama. America did not do it! Kenya, through His Excellency the President, and the Right Hon. the Prime Minister, were the first nations, recently to celebrate and amplify their achievements of President Obama on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, not based on what he had done in the past, but based on his pedestal on focus to the future based on the crescendo he occupies today, and the President and CEO, of the only super"
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