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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to second the Motion on the report of the Kenya delegation to the extraordinary session of the sixth Parliament of the PAP, held at the Gallagher Convention Centre, in Midrand, South Africa, from 20th to 27th March, 2024. As I said in an earlier conversation, these meetings are important because they add to expanding our knowledge as parliamentarians and coming up with ideas that can help us to inject newness and innovation, drawing from what other parliaments around the world are doing. The PAP in particular is one where we can do a lot more. Even as colleagues participate in those forums, I urge them to help by bringing the conversation of expanding trade in Africa a lot more. It is strange that people of some West African countries have to go to Europe before coming back to East Africa. It is strange that several countries in Africa get simple food products all imported from Europe when food that Sen. Mungatana spoke about is plenty on the African Continent. If we open trade routes across Africa and amongst African countries, we will enrich our continent much faster. I request our colleagues who are Members of the PAP to steer or spearhead a conversation that can see an open Africa, where we trade with each other more and focus a lot on intra-Africa trade than trading elsewhere. I therefore second."
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