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    "speaker_name": "Yatta, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Kilonzo",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Mutavi Kilonzo",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I second the Motion. At the outset, I want to say that the Motion is long overdue. If we recall, at the height of piracy, this country faced a lot of challenges and so did the neighbouring states. Some of the challenges still exist. Some of them include; piracy, terrorism, illegal fishing, illegal exploration and drug trafficking. The member states faced all these challenges and none had any means of cooperating with a neighbour. So, these two Agreements present an opportunity and we need to move very fast as a Parliament and do our job of ratifying them. Allow me to talk about the first one on Regional Maritime Information Exchange and Sharing Mechanism in the Indian Ocean. Before, there was no sharing of information. In Article 3, the Agreement seeks to lay the basis for regional cooperation framework among state parties to enhance maritime safety and security. Specifically, it seeks to improve each party’s knowledge of its maritime situation, inform speedy operations to speedy responses to threats and to allow state parties to master the knowledge and technology among others. It also improves maritime information fusion and promotes the culture of maritime information sharing. This is something which was not in existence. It is very important that if we are going to fight the challenges I mentioned earlier, we share information. As it was earlier stated under Article 4, the Agreement does not govern warships or state vessels that are not exercising commercial activities that are in transit. So, parties are at liberty to choose which information to share when it comes to that aspect, but all parties have agreed to increase the sources and quantity of information given to the Centre and to observe agreed confidentiality and integrity requirements attached to the information shared. It has also been stated that the host country is Madagascar. Of importance, we all remember when we tried pirates at the height of piracy off the shoreline of Somalia. We had a memorandum of understanding where pirates arrested by the international naval forces were tried and jailed in Kenya. One of the biggest challenges then was 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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