{"id":1477206,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1477206/?format=json","text_counter":276,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Suba North, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. At the outset, I support this Motion. I served in the Pan African Parliament in the 12th Parliament. One of the reasons I support this Protocol is that it addresses some of the reasons for which I was not very keen to go back to the Pan African Parliament. However, with this Protocol I am really happy that they have addressed some of those issues. The Pan-African Parliament had a lot of potential. It still has, but because it did not have any teeth or legislative capacity, it meant that we were basically meeting almost like a conference where we make resolutions and nothing comes out of them. Now that it is being given a legislative mandate, it will give it teeth."}