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    "speaker_name": "December 6, 2017 SENATE DEBATES 8 Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion. Listening to the Senate Majority Leader, there is a very important business which we need to transact. The main reason why I stood up is because I am a Member of the Joint Committee that is handling the EALA business. I want to mention two things. It will be important to update the House so that Members are kept abreast with what is happening in the Committee. One, we met this morning and tomorrow, we shall table the report which will most likely be voted on the 13th December, 2017. It is really important that we transact this business. Those of us who currently are in Dar es Salaam for the EALA parliamentary games or those of us who have been there, I was there the whole of last weekend up to Tuesday and the one question that the rest of East African Community (EAC) kept asking us is why we have held the entire regional bloc at ransom. It is really unfortunate and we explained to them that it had very little to do with our local politics but had everything to do with the timing of our political season, given that we were heading to presidential campaigns. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is imperative that we bring this business to a close on 13th December, 2017. I wish to request Members who may have something that they feel is useful and needs to be added to that business to avail themselves in the House tomorrow afternoon so that they are given a chance to raise any pertinent issue that they might have. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support."
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