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    "id": 397185,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A. B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, every Member has a card and every Member will be given time to speak. This is a House of debate. It is not a choir and we do not have a chorus. You have the chance to disagree with the Leader of the Majority Party. If you want the people you represent to hear you on any Motion, then you take the Floor. We will all keep quiet and listen to you. People are watching and they do not listen to chorus. I want to be heard. I want my time to move the Motion. This Motion has passed through the Senate. Today, Wednesday 25th September, 2013, the Motion is before the National Assembly. The next Sitting of the Pan African Parliament is in the first week of October. It should be noted that Kenya, as a regional leader, both economically and politically, our representation should reflect the strength and the position of Kenya as one of the emerging strong and powerful countries in the region. So, the people we send there will enjoy under the Protocol all that they enjoy under our Act on privileges. There are articles on immunity, privileges, functions and powers. There are rules of procedure, the oath of office, the way the sessions will be carried out, the budget of the Pan African Parliament, and the seat of the Pan African Parliament. All that is well documented in the Protocol. If Kenya wants to withdraw the way we felt one day and called a session to discuss our withdrawal from the ICC, then there is the clause of withdrawal in the Protocol. There is also the review of the Protocol. Hon. Speaker, we have men and women who represent us in Brussels and I am sure their Report will be tabled before this House for debate. The same will obtain for the men and women legislators that we will send to the Pan African Parliament. We will bring the Report here. Your name must be in this Order Paper today. Tomorrow it might be you. We must have a situation where---"
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