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    "id": 710980,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/710980/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Agreement like most other international agreements, goes through three stages before coming into effect. The three main stages are adaptation, signing and joining. Those are very key elements which are very common to all international agreements before respective Houses are asked to ratify. So, this Agreement was first opened for signature at the UN in New York from 22nd April 2016 to 2nd April 2017. Signing is important because it indicates the commitment of a country. That is the reason Parliament, more so the National Assembly, has been given the role to ratify the Agreement. This is what happened in the Eighth and Ninth Parliaments, where the Senator for Busia, Hon. Amos Wako, and the former Permanent Secretary, Mr. Peter Mwangi, who was then a junior diplomat in New York, sat somewhere in Rome and signed the Rome Statute, but 10 years later, we realised what we went through. That is why today, Parliament, particularly the National Assembly, has a role in making sure that never again will the Attorney- General or the Cabinet Secretary in charge of justice or some people in the Executive can go to capitals to sign and mortgage our rights. That is why the people’s representatives have a serious role. I am sure the framers of the Constitution had that in place. After signing, parties then formally join the Paris Agreement by depositing instruments of ratification acceptance. So, after we ratify, Kenya, through the relevant Ministries, will deposit the instruments for ratification. That is the second most important stage, so that the Agreement will have been already entered into on 4th November 2016 as required through the threshold of parties representing, at least, 55 per cent of the global greenhouse. In a nutshell, this is very important and Parliament, more so the National Assembly, has lived up to its existence by doing a number of ratifications. Therefore, I recommend and urge that the House approves the ratification of the Paris Climate Change Agreement as it is. I am sure Hon. Ottichilo has put it better that it is in Kenya’s national best interest. Kenya will benefit from the resource that will come, training and capacity building that it will entail and the transfer of technology that this Agreement is going to bring to our country. I beg to second."
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