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    "id": 370282,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/370282/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anami",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Lisamula Silverse Anami",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, while contributing to this Motion, perhaps, we need to emphasize the need for us to do thorough housekeeping. I would like to support this Motion while emphasizing the need for us to revisit our processes of negotiating and entering agreements. We have very many agreements that we have entered as a country. But what process do we take and whom do we involve and what skills do we have? Do we have the right negotiators? This is because the challenge we have here is that we even have some agreements that we do not know about. We do not take stock of the agreements we have and the benefits that we can accrue from the same. So, there is the issue of performance. It is one thing signing an agreement and it is another thing implementing and evaluating the levels of implementation. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, while supporting this Motion, I would like to propose that we should endeavor to get away from negotiation that is informed by little tokens of lunch, dinner and air lifts. This is because these are the little things that convince Kenyan negotiators. As long as you are in someone else’s country then you get taken away, you take everything that he offers. We should get away from this trait. Of course, we have behind the scenes activities and negotiations."
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