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    "id": 675337,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I cannot take a misleading point. You need to listen to me. This British Army has been training here in Kenya. How many years has it been training? If there was no agreement before, they would not have been training here. The Chair is misleading. We are to ratify the agreement. Ratification has not yet been done. The challenge comes in the Treaty Making Ratification Act. All the agreements or treaties that Kenya is signatory to and have been ratified by Parliament become part and parcel of our laws. That is agreeable. We know that. I have proposed an amendment to the Treaty Making and Ratification Act. The provision given in the Act is to either ratify or pass it with reservations. The issue of reservations works against our wish. That is why we are saying that we will bring an amendment to the Treaty Making and Ratification Act. We are here to ratify. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the challenge we have is that much as we have cooperation with UK, we have merits and demerits. There are issues that are of concern to us. An example is the UK paying the Government of Kenya Kshs19 million a year. It is like Kshs1.2 million a month. This is negligible and totally insignificant. We had an opinion that we are being underpaid after looking at other jurisdictions. Djibouti is paid around Kshs6 billion. We should increase this amount. Instead of the mere Kshs19 million, we should look at the benefits that cannot be found anywhere. Look at the issues in Nanyuki where they have been impregnating ladies, there are their children there yet they go away without parenting. Secondly, our miraa has been banned from being taken to the UK. Miraa is part and parcel of the welfare of the people of Kenya particularly the people of Meru. They brought a petition to us, we looked at it and they were saying that it must be give and take. As we ratify this agreement for their troops to continue training in Kenya, can they lift the ban on our miraa for the benefit of the people of Meru?"
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