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    "id": 836234,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I share your concerns. Currently, we may engage in an exercise of parading ignorance. We are talking about a report that is very scanty and a report that we cannot see. The Pan-African Parliament is purely a matter of legislative agenda in so far as Africa is concerned. I have also engaged in a smaller micro-perspective when it comes to East Africa. Even as we talk about the problems in Africa, it is very important for us to note as Members of Parliament and as Africans that Africa was created at the same time as Europe and America. Maybe we should move Africa to better heights. Reinforcing the point from my colleague, Hon. Manje, sometimes I feel pity and sympathise with our conditions as Africans. Just today, we were querying our mining department. Even on mining, it is bad for us to note that Africa is the wealthiest continent in the world. In terms of minerals, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the wealthiest country on earth yet it is the poorest when it comes to living standards. The current way of integrating as Africans is purely about trade. Yes, we can come together as Africans, as Members of Parliament from African countries but we may just go into cycles of our misery combined with the misery in Nigeria or any other African country without necessarily going into specific solutions that you can offer as a continent. In my thinking, one of the issues that we can benefit from is looking at Africa as a consumption base so that as we make trade deals with other continents and countries, we negotiate as Africans other than Kenya, for example, negotiating trade deals with other continents. This can only happen if we have first of all sorted our internal affairs. By internal affairs, I mean if for example we go and meet other parliamentarians from any other continent… As we talk about taking the continent forward, the continent can only move forward if the specific states are in a path of moving forward. Starting with Kenya, we are in a good trajectory in terms of the region but there is a lot that is left to be desired when it comes to embracing industrialisation because one of the major crises we have as Africa is unemployment. There is no way we can sustain economic growth and create jobs if we do not embrace industrialisation and fail to embrace policies that will bring about production that makes sense in terms of creating labour opportunities for the youth of this continent. I would like to see the Report so that I can give points that make more sense but it is a good thing that we continue thinking about integration as Kenya, as East African Community, and as entire continent so that we can create one more bloc that can solidify in terms of making negotiations with others outside our jurisdiction as a continent."
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