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    "content": "the fashion of a European Union that will allow free movement and trade so that we can strengthen ourselves. Therefore, an instrument that links the Pan-African Parliament with the African Union is a necessity. I support it. That is what we need. Africa is large. Young Africans make up a large population. They should be allowed to move freely across this Continent, utilise our potential and see ourselves as one. Ratification of this Protocol is a step in the right direction. Those of us who go to the Pan-African Parliament should consider creating one big unit. We should not go there to compete for single unions. If you read in history, the last great meeting held by African countries to establish one African union was sabotaged by the colonialists. They convinced several small African states that if they established one great union, they would leave Accra, where the meeting was held, not as presidents, but as part of a small unit. With that, everybody said they would rather be a president of a small unit than be a small person in a greater union. That is how they killed it. The Pan- African Parliament is a root that can slowly start building that great unity that we need. We must support it. To that extent, I support the Committee’s Report that recommends that we ratify this Protocol. If more African countries sign this Protocol, it will move us closer to getting people elected to the Pan-African Parliament in a more substantive way and start looking at Africa as one unit. We should stop flying to Europe and come back to Africa. This is the right way to go about it. With that, I support the Committee’s Report."
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