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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "content": "many ambassadors who look with contempt at Members of Parliament (MPs). I can confirm that everywhere I found Amb. Amayo, he was very respectful to Parliament. He is now Kenya’s representative to the AU in the area of reforms. He is a seasoned diplomat. I hope working together with President Ruto, they will deal with key issues that need to be transformed at the AUC. In Africa, there are still a lot of challenges that we must ask the new AUC Chair to settle down and not to be drawn into Kenya’s political and toxic social media wars. He should settle down and deal with key challenges facing Africa. When Kenya proposed the Rt. Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga to be the Chair of the Commission, we knew the challenge that was ahead of us. The AU has a target to silence the guns in Africa. Unfortunately, the guns are raging even louder. They are raging in Sudan, Somalia, and Nigeria in the fight against Boko Haram. The guns are not silent in Africa. That is why we are now challenging the new Chair of the Commission to get down to business and not go around in political rallies in Djibouti trying to rub it in that Kenya did not get that position. The Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was an excellent idea. It was mooted just around the time of COVID-19 Pandemic. Today, the AfCFTA is non- operational because sovereign states are still unwilling to deal with the tariff and non- tariff barriers. They are still unwilling to align their legislation to build one common market in Africa. Within the African territory, we have a coup belt that is running from West Africa, through the Sahel, coming into Central Africa. If we are not careful, it will go all the way to the Indian Ocean. It is said that in Africa, you can travel from West to East Africa, going through countries that have got military dictatorships and leaderships that came to office through coup d'états. That is the reason the AU was established to deter leaders from taking over power through coup d'états. Flights are still very expensive in Africa. If you want to go to West Africa, you have the unfortunate situation where sometimes you have to go to Doha or Dubai for you to land in Accra or Guinea-Conakry. Those are the challenges we expect that the new Commission Chair will deal with. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to finalise by urging fellow Senators and all Kenyans having seen the situation and the terrain in the African Continent, let us now turn to our country and make it great. The phrase; “love your neighbour as you love yourself” appears in the Bible not just once, but three times. It appears in the Book of Leviticus, the Book of Mark, and the Book of Matthew. Love your neighbour as you love yourself. We cannot love Africa more than we love Kenya. This is the time for us to come back to Kenya and make it great again. I, as a leader of the Homa Bay delegation, I am willing to partner and work with all the leaders in this Republic who are willing to make Kenya great again. We will not make Kenya great through negative ethnicity. We will not make Kenya great through division. We will not make Kenya great through revisionism, where"
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