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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "thing to do”. Where they can challenge each other about business, speak about ease of doing business in Africa, exploitation of Africa, issues of corruption and youth and unemployment. These are the many issues that continue to face this continent. Madam Temporary Speaker, in my humble opinion, I do submit before this House, that until such a time that each and every resident country of the African continent sits, doctrinates and makes it part and parcel of their laws that the PAP is the premium institution in terms of African parliaments where people can sit and their resolutions can be binding to all the 52 governments of Africa, we are still on our way up. I agree with many of the recommendations. I have read the resolutions where they are condemning all acts of inhumane treatment of refugees, returnees and displaced persons. These are very good recommendations. They speak to each other and say that in each country, you either have a refugee, returnee or displaced persons. That exists even in Kenya. Kenya is one of the countries where we have all the three that are listed in this category. We have refugees, returnees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) either from post-election violence or Government policies that have gone wrong as is the case in the Mau. If the PAP had been promoted to the level that they are seeking, these resolutions today would not just be resolutions or a situation whereby we are expecting Members of this Committee like Sen. Dr. Ali or Sen. Mwaura to launch a campaign and try to speak to their governments and encourage them to be bound by this. It would be a matter of presenting the issue before the Attorney-General of the Republic of Kenya and saying: “PAP has given you this number of days to be compliant.” Reading through the resolutions, I have noted that they are calling upon African nations to take the necessary measures to achieve the agenda of silencing the guns by the year 2020. This is quite an ambitious goal especially bearing in mind that we are only a few days to 2020 yet the entire region still continues with conflict. Madam Temporary Speaker, the sad thing about the issues that we continue to read about is that Africa is still the only continent where you have more countries at war, both externally and within itself, than those that are at peace, yet we continue to talk and sit as if life is okay. If things were to be fixed in some of our neighbouring countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and their economy allowed to perform at the level it can, even the entire region would benefit. There is no country as rich in terms of minerals and all the extractives you can think of like the DRC. Are we powerless as a continent to a point that we cannot be able to sit down the people who brought about the conflict in DRC because they are known? They continue to move around the continent lecturing us. The other day, I saw what was happening in South Sudan and how other Western nations--- Of course I am alive to the provisions of our Standing Orders about discussing friendly nations. That is why I am guided and I cannot name the perpetrators of some of these atrocities against African nations. Perhaps on another day when we revise some of these Standing Orders, we should be allowed to speak freely especially on issues that matter; on an issues that touch on what is happening in our continent and what Western nations have done to ensure that they continue to enjoy."
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