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    "id": 1259297,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to also contribute to this important Motion. The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) which is also called the African Parliament has the ultimate aim to be a full Parliament with full legislative powers to oversight the African Union (AU) and also to facilitate the various policies, treaties and programmes across Africa. Worryingly, though this is the ultimate goal of the AU, it has largely been a talk show because we do not see anything major coming out of that Parliament. When you look around you can see the challenges we are having around Africa. At the moment there is a challenge in Sudan and we have not heard the voice of the PAP on the matter. The Abuja Treaty that defines the functions of the Parliament clearly states that one of the issues they need to deal with is human rights and promoting democracy. We do not see promotion of human rights and democracy in most African countries, for example Sudan. There is quite a lot that this Parliament needs to do. Time is running out. It is important for them to pull up their socks and become a true Parliament that can even elect its members through universal suffrage and not selection by respective Parliaments. We have so many treaties which have not been ratified and domesticated in most African countries. Whereas if they were, they would create a lot of progress in Africa. For example, the treaty on continental free trade areas, treaty on single African air transport free market. Why, for example, has it taken too long for the ratification Malabo Protocol on cyber-crime? This Parliament has a lot to do but they are doing very little. They only engage in talks but we want to see progress. I congratulate professor---"
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