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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have not answered the Question in a casual manner. The hon. Member has asked quite a very detailed Question that would require a lot of time to cover many of the aspects he has asked for. So, it is not fair to say that we have given it a casual approach. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, what I said from the very beginning is that the Common Market was formally launched, but the actual implementation has not completely taken place. So, that really, to assess the impact at this very early stage in terms of volumes of trade, would not be giving the Common Market the justice that it requires. There may be other reasons why the trade in East Africa has been growing other than the implementation of the Common Market. This is because very little has been done in terms of implementing the Common Market. But if he is talking about how the Customs Union has contributed to trade volumes, then I can give the statistics of those trade volumes later. I can bring them here. But the trade volumes have been due to the customs union, not the Common Market. Those are two different things. As I said from the very beginning, we have not yet fully implemented the Common Market because we have to change our own domestic legal regimes to conform to the Common Market Protocol. If we do so, the Common Market Protocol can now come fully into operation."
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