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    "id": 837033,
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    "speaker_name": "Kisii CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Janet Ong’era",
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        "legal_name": "Janet Ongera",
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    "content": "objectives of the Pan-African Parliament are: one, to facilitate effective implementation of the policies and objectives of the African Union (AU) ultimately. The second one is to promote the principles of human rights and democracy in Africa, encourage good governance, transparency and accountability in member states among others. The Pan-African Parliament is drawn up of 250 members from the 50 AU countries that have ratified the Pan-African Parliament Protocol. Each country is represented by a delegation of five members of the national parliaments. The Parliament is run under the following organs: the plenary and the bureau which comprises of the leadership of the Pan-African Parliament and which is composed of the president and four vice-presidents, the secretariat led by the clerk, the committees of the Pan- African Parliament and regional caucuses. The regional caucuses are divided into five: East Africa, Central Africa, South Africa, North Africa and West Africa. During this plenary, a number of issues were discussed. Elections were also held. Elections of the president were held and I am pleased to report that Hon. Roger Nkodo from the Central Region was elected as the president of the Parliament. I am also pleased to report that Hon. Stephen Masele from the East Africa region was elected as the first vice-president of the Parliament. From the northern Africa region, Hon. Bouras Djamal was elected as the third vice-president and, finally, Hon. Haïdara Aichata was elected as the second vice-president from the Central Africa region. During this period, the regional caucuses also held their elections. I am pleased to report that for the East Africa regional caucus, Hon. Janet Ong’era was elected as the chairperson of the East Africa region caucus, Hon. Fidele Rwigamba from Rwanda was elected as the vice chairperson and Hon. Bobby Sherman Ram was elected the rapporteur of the East Africa region. In this session, we also had several committee sessions. I want to note that the Members of the Kenyan delegation were nominated to various committees of the permanent committees. I want to start with Senator Abdullahi Ali who I am pleased to report was nominated to the Co- operation, International Relations and Conflict Resolution Committee, and he was also elected as the rapporteur of that Committee. Senator Stewart Madzayo was nominated to the Audit and Public Accounts Committee. Hon. Janet Ong’era was nominated to the Rural Economy, Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources Committee. Hon. Jude Njomo was nominated to the Trade, Customs and Immigration Committee while Hon. Beatrice Kones was nominated to Transport, Industry, Communication, Energy, Science and Technology Committee"
}