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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kombo",
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        "legal_name": "Musikari Nazi Kombo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to second the Motion that Prof. Kamar has moved, as it is on the Order Paper. Kenya is a member of the ACP Group that was created many years ago to co- ordinate co-operation amongst its members and the European Union. Amongst the objectives of the group of the ACP are promotion of new, fairer and more equitable world order; promotion of solidarity amongst the ACP countries and promotion of regional integration. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are many issues that the ACP countries are interested in. The organs of the ACP-EU are Heads of Governments, Council of Ministers, Council of Ambassadors and the Joint Parliamentary Assembly, which Prof. Kamar and I do attend, and we thank the Kenyan Parliament for having given us the privilege to do so. At the Joint Parliamentary Assembly, we concentrate mainly on the role of National Parliaments in various fields that affect the people they represent. In the recent few meetings, we have looked at the role of Parliament in so far as aid effectiveness from European countries, and particularly, under a programme called the “European Development Fund (EDF)”. The EDF is a major fund that the European countries use as a mechanism of passing on aid to ACP countries, and they are country programmes. However, our country programme on the EDF is never brought to Parliament for Parliament to be able to interrogate that programme or to even know what is happening. I would suggest that Parliament and its relevant Departmental Committees look at such programmes, because these are some of the agreements that our Government enters into without Parliament playing any role whatsoever. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we also looked at the EPAS, which Prof. Kamar has mentioned, and on which I will dwell at length later on. The question of"
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