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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, for giving me a chance to also make my contribution. I was so deeply disappointed that Kenya lost the quest to take the chairmanship of the AUC. We all know that Africa belongs to all six or so regions. As a person who has lived, gone to school and represents a county in East Africa, it could only have been fair that a candidate from East Africa takes over as the next Chairperson of the AUC. The AU belongs to all the 55 nations of Africa. Therefore, we want to feel a sense of belonging. It is like a father who has many children. All these children need to have a sense of belonging. They need to feel that they are part of a family. That was a very painful loss, not only for Kenya, but for the regional bloc called East Africa. If I was the president, this is the time I would have asked my brothers in the East African bloc to walk the talk. I was at State House when President Yoweri Museveni rose and assured us, Kenyans, that he would be in Addis Ababa to second Raila Amollo Odinga's candidature. However, the reports that we received from Addis indicate that Yoweri Museveni did not take time personally to travel to Addis Ababa to not only vote for us, but to also help us in campaigning. It is not easy to convince another president to vote for you. You need to have as many presidents as possible to support your candidature. I hope that our presidents from the East African bloc will consider whether we will change the idea of leadership within the AU, so that it becomes rotational. How come that in the 23 years that AU has been in existence, the Francophone countries have taken the position of the chair for 19 years and Anglophone only four years yet Kenya and other Anglophone countries make their contribution to the AU? You are privileged to be a lawyer and you know that the presidency of the East African Law Society (EALS) is rotational. If this year the chairmanship goes to Kenya, the following year, it goes to Tanzania, and the other year, it will go to Uganda. That way, you do not feel the pain of contributing to a body that will never allow you to take a leadership position. We cannot have an association or a union that is supposed to bring all countries together, but others have ganged up to ensure that other regions can never ascend to the 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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