According to the Speaker, parliament as an institution is clothed with the legitimacy and authority to make a difference in the lives of the people and urged African parliaments to wake up to that realization. The Speaker was addressing a Kenyan Parliamentary Delegation on Defense and Foreign Relations led by Hon. Speaker Alban Bagbin used the occasion to reiterate his call for increased cooperation among sub-Saharan countries and their counterparts in the East. I think we need to do better, we need to start looking more at each other rather than outside. He also stressed the importance of deepening parliamentary democracy.
