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    "id": 427770,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/427770/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I just wanted to say that this is a very important subject under discussion here today. Last week, hon. Sakaja and I represented Kenya in the African, Caribbean, Pacific countries and European Union (ACP/EU) Conference in Strasbourg. I want to say that this particular subject was in contention in the assembly, mainly because a week earlier the European Parliament had sat down and passed a resolution to move Nigeria and Uganda out of the Cotonou Agreement, just because of effecting a law on the matter we are discussing now. Kenya’s view in the assembly was that we are a sovereign nation that makes and respects her own laws. It is very unfortunate that some members of the European Parliament are on record referring to the action taken by Uganda and Nigeria as that of ape-looking human beings who once roamed the world. In other words, they are primitive laws. The Penal Code, from the research I did, is not something that Kenyans made; it was inherited from the British. What makes them laws of ape-looking humans? I do not want to go deep into this debate, but nations must respect the sovereignty of the African countries with regard to their choice of laws as that is what their people want."
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