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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Laboso",
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        "legal_name": "Joyce Cherono Laboso",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also rise to support the adoption of this report. First of all, I would like to sincerely congratulate all the hon. Members of the Pan-African Parliament from Kenya for providing leadership in that continental body. I wish to sincerely say that we are proud of them for all the leadership roles that they have been given in that body. I also urge our Government to give more support to that Parliament because we have heard that it has been having a lot of financial problems. I also urge all the African Governments to support this body, which I believe should be strengthened. I am very pleased to learn that it is thinking of becoming a fully-fledged Parliament with elective representation from all the countries and I believe that this is the direction to go. I also believe that if it is a fully-fledged Parliament, it will have more teeth because it will be a legislative body. That is what Africa needs. We need a body that is able to give direction and enact laws that can be followed by Africans. There is a lot of diversity in African countries. There are issues at times that, if there was another body within the continent that could give direction and legislation, we could move faster than we are able to do. I am thinking of an issue like gender and the under-representation of women in leadership positions. I am glad that my colleague has just talked about women leadership. As you are well aware, Kenya is one of the worst countries in terms of women being represented, particularly in the political arena. I believe that we will be able to borrow an example from other countries. A country such as Rwanda has over 56 per cent of its parliamentarians being women. I think that even the 30 per cent women representation we have been unable to achieve in Kenya would come automatically through the Pan African Parliament."
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