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    "id": 622156,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ong’era",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Janet Ongera",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity so that I may support this Motion. I welcome the nomination of Sen. Billow to be a Member of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) representing the Senate. Sen. Billow is a distinguished Senator who has not only vast experience but is also widely knowledgeable in the diaspora particularly in international affairs which we mostly deal with in the PAP. As a Member of the PAP, I also want to thank Sen. Murkomen who has been our leader of delegation, and I hope that the reports we have written can be tabled in this House. We have had many issues that we have discussed in the PAP and we did write reports. I hoped that the leader of delegation would have tabled these reports in the House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as you are aware, soon PAP is going to become an independent Parliament so that we will no longer have Members nominated from the parliaments but we will have elections by universal suffrage, so that whoever we elect there is our representative, elected by the people from the grassroots. Once the amendment to this Protocol is passed – which has been brought before the National Assembly- I believe then that PAP will now become an independent Parliament just like the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we are going to represent this House in PAP, I want to assure Members that we represent the Senate well in our discussions. We always bring to the knowledge of PAP Members that Kenya is now a bicameral Parliament and it has the Senate as the “Upper House” and the National Assembly as the “Lower House”. We always articulate this position because sometimes people tend to forget that Kenya has a bicameral parliament. Should this Motion pass, we welcome Sen. Billow who I am sure will add a lot of value and enrich our delegation. I thank you."
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