Janet Marania Teyiaa

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: have view
• 26 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: a lot to do view
• 26 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: in this border view
• 26 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: post. We need to address these issues, so that our people can benefit and not be abused. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those few remarks, I support the Report. A lot needs to be done in the border post. Thank you. view
• 19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House notes the Report of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations on a Meeting with the Member States and Secretaries of the Economic Community of West African States and East African Community to Promote and Popularise the Ratification of the Protocol on the Free Movement of Persons and its Implementation Roadmap, laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday, 21st November 2018. view
• 19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: This meeting was held in Dakar, Senegal last year. My Committee received a letter dated 16th August 2018 in which the African Union (AU) had written to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and an invitation was extended to the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. Also the invitation to attend this meeting was extended to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Legal Department, the Office of the Attorney-General, the East African Community (EAC), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Secretariat, as well as the Member States from the two Regional Economic Communities (RECs). This was to popularize and ... view
• 19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: This was a follow-up to the AU Assembly which was held in January 2018, which came up with this Protocol. As I said earlier, Kenya signed it on 21st March 2018, but there was a slow pace in terms of ratification. So, this meeting held in Dakar, Senegal was to see how ratification could be fast-tracked. Of course, this is about free movement of persons. So, when this Protocol was adopted in the AU Assembly, it was said that for it to be effected, about 15 African member states should ratify it. The EAC has six Member states and ECOWAS ... view
• 19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: The free movement of persons is central to the integration of the continent and this cannot be separated from other regional integration initiatives such as economic integration and common policies on cooperation and security. We, therefore, want to integrate and talk of economic integration and sharing on security cooperation issues. I think free movement of persons is also very key. view
• 19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: There is what is called African integration agenda, in the areas of trade, goods and services which has since advanced as a result of development of relevant policies in these areas. This has not been the case for the free movement of persons within the continent. Therefore, the purpose of the consultation was to bring together regions that have already established the progressive free movement regime in Africa, in order to sensitise them of the AU free movement regime and find ways to work on accelerating signatures, ratification, domestication and implementation of the Protocol by the end of 2020; which ... view
• 19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Protocol builds on the effort of the AU member states at bilateral levels and regional integration framework to promote, as I said, economic, social and cultural development as well as the integration of African economies. Even in our country, nowadays we have what we call regional economic blocs in terms of counties. For example, we have the Jumuiya ya Kaunti za Pwani. We have some in western, south rift and 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. view