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    "id": 963586,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "It is not fair when you read how the PAP continues to challenge us on the things that we need. I have seen that the Pan African Parliament is also calling upon the AU to help conflicting parties in Africa to resolve their differences to allow refugees return to their countries and also set up effective early warning systems to detect and prevent eruption of conflicts. What is the position, say of those who have retired from office? You know we have a very interesting discussion in our country right now, where people are telling our President that he is too young to retire. Such people should never be allowed to speak in any public forum. I was embarrassed yesterday, during the launch of the BBI, when I saw one such fellow being allowed to speak. People must be able to serve and give an opportunity for others to serve. It is these retired African presidents that we need to put somewhere, so that at a peer to peer level, every time there is an early warning and the country that is about to go in turmoil, they can visit it and sit down the politicians. In all these conflicts that we have in Africa, it is about the fight for power and resources, mostly by politicians. It is not even communities. It is politicians who pit community against the other and yet, all they are interested in is not even to serve, but just how much they can benefit out of it. Madam Temporary Speaker, these will find good value in creating a club of retired African presidents. You remember that in 2007/2008 when we had our moment of difficulty as a country, it is former presidents from different parts of Africa that came, sat us down during the National Accord and our country was able to get back on the right path. The same needs to be replicated across the entire Africa. Therefore, we should bury those people that are encouraging our President and telling him that he is too young to retire. He is too young such that we need his services across the continent. I am sure there is good value that he adds from the experience he has gained and the regional goodwill he continues to enjoy. He can be very useful in achieving this dream of the PAP where Africans can begin giving solutions to each other. Madam Temporary Speaker, in concluding, I have seen that they are also encouraging AU member States to ratify, domesticate and implement AU instruments of refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and returnees and also accede to global compact of refugees. I think Kenya has set a good example in this region. We host the world’s largest refugee centre. The challenges that have been there, notwithstanding, we have been a good neighbour to our entire neighborhood each and every time they have had conflict. You can count; Somali, Southern Sudan, Djibouti and all these other countries. Each time they have had conflict, they have always found themselves being welcomed to Kenya. We need to encourage the rest of the region to also learn how to share the burden when you neighbours are in turmoil. This is so that, as a region, we can be happy amongst ourselves. It is not that all the countries that are members of the EU agree or like each other, but they have learnt that if God has put us together in one region, we are stronger than we"
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