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    "id": 1349632,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Chute",
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        "legal_name": "Chute Mohamed Said",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Pan-Africanism started many years ago with the African Americans. I want to recognize Martin Delany and Alexander Crummell, not forgetting Mr. Edward Braden from the West Indies. Pan-Africanism started because of the problems Africans in Africa and black people in Europe and America were facing. They managed to create the movement to secure Africa for Africans because of the help they got from their brothers in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. The first Pan-African conference was held in London from the 23rd to the 25th July, 1900. It was organized by a lawyer named Henry Sylvester Williams of Trinidad. Other African leaders were people such as Kwame Nkurumah, Kenneth Kaunda, Haile Selassie, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, a Jamaican activist-Patrice Lumumba-you know how he died; Julius Kambarage Nyerere, Robert Mugabe, Thomas Sankara, Kwame Ture, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Robert Sobukwe. All these are pan Africanists. If it were not for these people, some of these African countries would not have gained independence today. They sacrificed their lives. People such as Patrice Lumumba were executed. If you look at the history of Jomo Kenyatta, he was in London washing dishes and working on some low paying jobs because he wanted independence for this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Pan African Parliament (PAP) was set out to ensure the participation of all the African people in the economic development and integration of this continent. The African Union Assembly adopted a protocol called - Assembly/AU/Dec.529(XXIII) in June, 2014. Later on, in September, 2015, 15-member states signed for the protocol and today, we have the PAP. I will not say much. However, it is quite alarming, disturbing and disheartening when our able leader, a highly experienced politician, stands before us and says that Members of Parliament (MPs) from the National Assembly could manage to travel while Members of the Senate could not travel because they are cash strapped. This is very unfortunate, uncalled for and wrong. We are being paid and facilitated by the same Government. We are representing our people, who are Kenyans in 47 counties. Marsabit County is the largest counties in this Republic. Travelling from here to the furthest point in my county called Illeret, will take me three to four days. You cannot go for free, you spend a lot of money and time. An MP with one constituency can afford to travel for PAP while Sen. Mungatana, stands before us today and says “sorry, we did not travel because we did not have money”. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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