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    "content": "established by the African Heads of State with the sole mandate of eventually replacing the national Parliaments with a continental body. The functions of the Pan African Parliament within the first five years were intended to prepare that ground work. We are now midterm in the review process of the protocol that established the Pan African Parliament, hoping that in the process we will give that Parliament full legislative authority and powers to make laws. In this regard, the Pan African Parliament has been at the forefront of working out a formula and time table within which to achieve this goal of the founding fathers of the African Continent. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, one of the areas that have been stressed during our deliberations at the Pan African Parliament is that the national Parliaments play a greater role in sensitizing the African people of the functions of the Pan African Parliament and, indeed, the bodies set out under the African Union law; one of them being the Pan African Parliament. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in this last Session of the Pan African Parliament, our hon. Speaker of this National Assembly, was a keynote guest speaker. Speakers of African Parliaments have now set up the Speakers’ Conference which brings Speakers of the entire African Continent together for a meeting, at least, once a year to review the role of the national Parliaments in implementing the goals that the founding fathers of the African Union had in mind when they established this Pan African Parliament and other organs of the African Union. This is with a view to bringing people together and closer to the dream of President Kwame Nkurumah when he became the President of Africa’s first independent nation and that has been consistently advocated by all subsequent Members of the African Union, including our own---"
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