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    "id": 132990,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, appreciating the role played by the Great Lakes Parliamentary Forum (AMANI Forum) in building the capacities of Members of Parliament in peace building and conflict management in Kenya and within the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa: considering that participation of Kenya Members of Parliament in regional and national AMANI Forum activities has Significantly enriched debates in the House, informed committee deliberations, and created strategic linkages between Parliament and other actors in society; convinced on the need to mainstream peace building and conflict management aspects within the National Assembly of Kenya as the country emerges from post-election violence and is undertaking deliberate measures to promote reconciliation and national healing; aware that this is the only legislature in the region that has not given due recognition to this strategic regional organization; this House resolves that AMANI Forum Kenya Chapter be officially recognized as a parliamentary affiliated body of the National Assembly of Kenya. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Motion is really more of a procedural Motion for purposes of Parliamentary privileges and functions. But more fundamentally, given the history of our country in terms of post-election violence, there is no better time that this particular forum needed this kind of recognition. I am saying that it is procedure in the sense that AMANI Forum was actually registered in 2000 and it has been enjoying Parliamentary recognition and support. Indeed, all the Speakers, starting with hon. Francis ole Kaparo and more recently our new Speaker, hon. Kenneth Marende, have been very instrumental in each and every activity of AMANI Forum. However, we need to appreciate what AMANI Forum is all about. This is an initiative by the African Parliamentarians in the Great Lakes Region in 1999, when we felt that we needed African solutions to African problems. So, the mantra of AMANI Forum is “African solutions to African problems.” Indeed, the Kenyan Chapter has been able to enjoy the distinguished leadership of Prof. Peter Anyang’-Nyong’o and hon. Paul Muite, who were the first regional executive Members in the year 2003. We have also"
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