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Kenyan National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula has been re-elected as the representative of the Africa bloc in the standing committee of the Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC).
Kenyan National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula has been re-elected as the representative of the Africa bloc in the standing committee of the Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC). In a conference held in Kampala, Uganda, Wetangula was appointed by consensus to serve the second term as one of the three representatives in the CSPOC Standing Committee. The other two are the Speaker of Ghana and the Speaker of the Kingdom of Eswatini.
During the meeting, Wetangula gave a keynote speech, touching on matters of climate change which he said are dear to him. The Speaker said it is critically important to safeguard natural resources for a proper ecosystem existence in a natural manner. Parliaments have the power of legislation and need to keep pace with the fast-transforming world where the philosophy of green competition is gaining traction and is going to determine growth and development of the future, Wetangula stated.
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The Speaker of Uganda automatically remained the Chair for the reason of having hosted the conference as stipulated in the rules of CSPOC that the host Speaker remains a member of the Standing Committee for Institutional Memory. The conference was presided over by Uganda President Yoweri Museveni.
