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    "id": 726751,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Kenya has ratified 471 multilateral treaties and is party to 434 reciprocal mutual agreements. This include the Protocol for the Establishment of the East African Community, the East African Monetary Union, the African Maritime Transport Charter, the International Maritime Labour Convention of 2006, the African Youth Centre, the Doha Agreement to the Kyoto Protocol and the Beijing Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, among others. Over the years, great progress has been made both in international trade commitments and carrying out of our obligations as a country on the economic, social and political fronts. In a nutshell, the Report has the objectives of explaining the progress made in relation to our commitment of the 2015 annual reports. It outlines the measures taken in realisation of our national values and principles of governance by public institutions in 2015. Further, it provides Executive direction and commitment toward the greater achievement in the pronunciation of the national values and principle of governance. In the Forward, the President commented as follows: “There is need as a country for implementation of Sessional Paper No.9 of 2013 on National Cohesion and Integration, and Sessional Paper No.5 of 2014 on Peace Building and Conflict Management to promote peace and ethnic harmony.” Hon. Speaker, both Sessional Papers, having been brought here, have been discussed and approved. Those charged with the responsibility of implementing them have the authority in law to do so. The Government, through the President, agreed to rationalisation of budgetary allocation to ensure prudent utilisation of resources to support implementation of the two Sessional Papers to promote our national values. Above all, the President made a commitment that his Government shall put in place an inter-agency committee to ensure a peaceful electoral process before, during and after the 2017 General Election. Each one of us; the political players, the citizens and the security persons must equally make a commitment to have a peaceful election process before, during and after the forthcoming general election. The annual report to Parliament on the state of national security is sanctioned by the Section 16 of the National Security Council Act, 2012, which requires the President to give an annual report to Parliament on the state of security in Kenya. The Report is the third to be presented in this regime. The Report focuses on national security threats – both internal and external – that occur during or within the complex set of the legal, social, cultural and political contexts that will shape public safety, territorial integrity and security within the regional and international peace and security spheres."
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