{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=153183","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=153181","results":[{"id":1550012,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550012/?format=json","text_counter":291,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Saku, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Ali Raso","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. Article 2(6) of our Constitution is very clear. Ratification is a constitutional issue. Once this House ratifies laws that are enacted outside the borders of our country, they form the body of laws of this land. Article 94(5) of the Constitution is very clear. On that, the Executive knows that nothing will have a force of law unless it is passed by this House. For that reason, I thank the Chairman of the Departmental Committee of Finance and National Planning. Like what honourable colleagues have said, it is very strange that one of the largest economies in Africa, the largest in East Africa and in this region, in the Horn of Africa and Central Africa, while the other 45 other countries out of 53 had already made this part of their laws, we were still sitting on our hands. For this, I thank the President of Kenya. When Bill Clinton became President in the 1990s, he said the economy is stupid. He decided to focus on the economy as the centre-piece of his presidency. That is why America achieved growth. When our President started, he was able to engage the world on behalf of this country. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."},{"id":1550013,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550013/?format=json","text_counter":292,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Saku, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Ali Raso","speaker":null,"content":"However, many people said the President was jumping from one plane to another, without understanding that he was working to put Kenya at the centre of world so that this country can thrive economically. The marshall plan immediately after the Second World War could not be executed without a bank, and that is why the World Bank, then the Bank for Reconstruction and Development, was established by Americans to rebuild Europe through a marshall plan. When we look at the world today, it is turning towards unilateralism, where America is inward- looking. The sort of largesse we used to enjoy through bilateral support from the British, Americans and Germans is no longer there. Even our bilateral engagement with China is largely driven by their national interest; what they want to get from Kenya through foreign direct investment. Let us go regionalism because the world is going that way. Very few countries are trying to survive on their own. Actually, you cannot survive on your own if you want to develop and look after your people wherever they may be. For that reason, this is a very important piece of legislation that we must pass as a House. Like the Hon. Member for Kwanza has said, it should not be on the Floor of this House today. It should have come 10 or 15 years ago, so that Kenya plays its rightful place in the community of African nations. Finally, we have the African Development Bank (ADB). More and more, we see its activities more pronounced and pitched than what we used to get through World Bank, IMF and other international donors, including the…"},{"id":1550014,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550014/?format=json","text_counter":293,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. David Ochieng’","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Add him one more minute to finalise."},{"id":1550015,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550015/?format=json","text_counter":294,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Saku, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Ali Raso","speaker":null,"content":" We are getting more traction from ADB on our development projects like electricity, roads and water, than what we are experiencing with World Bank, IMF and other multilateral donors, including the European Union Fund. For that reason, like somebody said, Africa is our business and so we must do business with Africa. With those remarks, thank you for indulging me."},{"id":1550016,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550016/?format=json","text_counter":295,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. David Ochieng’","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Member for Seme, did you want to speak on this?"},{"id":1550017,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550017/?format=json","text_counter":296,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Seme, ODM)]: Yes."},{"id":1550018,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550018/?format=json","text_counter":297,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. David Ochieng’","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Okay, go ahead."},{"id":1550019,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550019/?format=json","text_counter":298,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Seme, ODM)]: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support that we should sign this agreement. My main reason is that we should have signed it a long time ago. This thing was founded in 2007 and Kenya became a member in 2017. I am sure at that time the Cabinet must have made that decision, and today, we are discussing it. For that reason, we should have signed it. Secondly, Africa needs to work together. If you start from the days of slavery, colonialism and the Second World War, it was after the war that European countries suddenly realised they could no longer keep the colonies. So, they let them go and if they had to go, they needed their resources. What did they do? The war ended in 1945 and in 1947, they started their development bank, which first of all dealt with infrastructure in Europe and later became a bank for the whole world. There is evidence that more money leaves Africa now than before the independence of the States. So, we need AFC. How come Pan-Africanism died? Around 1950s, Dubois and Kwame Nkrumah wanted Africa to come together and become one big federation. Problems in the USA started in 1774 when individuals started having problems with the King. The only thing that would give them strength against domination by Britain was to form one union. By 1776, they made the Declaration of Independence. Look at what they are now. They have been helping the world, but now they are closing in again. Where do we go? We need our own institutions. AFC needs to work. We also have ADB, African Export-Import The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."},{"id":1550020,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550020/?format=json","text_counter":299,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Bank and Islamic Development Bank. AFC is our institutions put together and the AU member States are the shareholders. What can be more home-grown for Africa? The AFC targets development. I long for a time when our young people will come from Cape Town and move all the way to Cairo without anybody asking them anything. They should move from Mombasa to Senegal on a nice road. That is when we will have one Africa. It is this AFC that will take us there. I support its ratification. The one big problem in Africa we must know is that when politics has made a good decision, it must yield to the realities of professionalism. There are laws of nature that politics cannot control. That is why we need professionals. Let us yield to them. Let them develop this Corporation so that Africa can benefit from its huge resources. Africa has the youngest population in the world. With a financing institution and proper politics, we should be the new horizon of development. After China and India, it must be Africa. This is the beginning. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support."},{"id":1550021,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550021/?format=json","text_counter":300,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. David Ochieng’","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Member for Garissa, are you waiting to speak on the Motion that is coming up? Okay. Member for Tinderet."}]}