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    "id": 10366,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the level of consultation in the House tells you how disinterested this House is in issues of the East African region. This House has become very inward looking and that is why we even pass constitutions that contradict treaties that we have even ourselves assented to. That is why you can see very little interest. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, what I was saying is that we are putting in place mechanisms to deal with non-tariff barriers that have been hindering trade and, currently, we are negotiating to come up with an enforcement mechanism that will sanction member states that put barriers to trade because, already, the law is very clear that we are supposed to have free movement of goods within East Africa. But partner states put all sorts of barriers, including non-tariff barriers like the police road blocks that make it difficult for trade to flourish. Right now, we are negotiating an instrument that will make it illegal for those barriers to be there and also that will make partner states which violate them to be sanctioned to pay penalties for those barriers. Secondly, we are also starting what we are calling one-stop border post that will allow goods to be cleared from one side without going through clearance twice at the border places. When the goods are coming from Kenya they are cleared on the side of Kenya and then they are able to move without further clearance across the border. We are calling them one-stop border posts. They will enhance trade and make it easy to clear goods and even to clear people traveling at the border posts."
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