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    "id": 837048,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kasipul Kabondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Eve Obara",
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        "legal_name": "Eve Akinyi Obara",
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    "content": "There are few observations that we made when we visited Pan-African Parliament. One, in every organisation, it is critical that you have a representative in the leadership. I appreciate that for the East African caucus because we have Hon. Janet Ong’era as the Chairperson. We also have Dr. Abdullahi in the International Relations and Conflict Resolution Committee as a rapporteur. But as you have clearly heard Hon. Ong’era state, the leadership of the Bureau has absolutely no person from Kenya. We noted that in the secretariat of Pan-African Parliament, there is only one single Kenyan, a lady. We need to do more as a country given our strength. We noted that as a country we need to strategise to be able to take some of these positions: the president, four deputy presidents. We can as a country clinch some of these positions. But we need to be strategic and plan properly to be able to get these positions. We have realised that those who are in these positions of leadership are Members of Parliament in their second or third terms. So, as a Parliament, this is something that we need to look at. Do we need to keep changing leaders? Or, if we identify strong Members within those committees, can they be supported so that they can also clinch the positions of leadership? We know the opportunities that come with being in leadership; one of them is employment. In the whole Pan-African Parliament Secretariat, there is just one Kenyan in a position and yet we have many Kenyans who are qualified and able to take these positions. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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