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    "id": 1052607,
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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
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    "content": "I had the opportunity to be part of a delegation that is, ACP-EU delegation from this Parliament. I fully understand how this treaty came into being from the original treaty that came from the Cotonou Agreement, where Kenya was negotiating with the EU on multi-lateral terms. If we go into this treaty, our country will have to go into a bilateral agreement with UK which has also exited from EU. So, as we look at this treaty, without having the annexes that have been listed here, I believe that the House shall be the poorer to be able to make a decision not knowing exactly what it is that this treaty entails. Looking at this, we do not know which products are going to be exempted as provided for by the treaty. We do not know whether this will mean that we shall be having tax free milk coming from the UK. We do not know whether the UK shall be bringing toothpicks. The people of Dagoretti South would be keen to know whether we shall be getting raw hides and skins from the UK under this new Economic Partnership Agreement. So, I am calling upon you, Hon. Speaker, through Standing Order No. 47(3), which gives you discretion to make a decision on this, to tell us whether we are in order to have this in the Order Paper in the manner that it is. What I am raising is, one, a deficiency issue. That this Report, as has been tabled here, is deficient in the sense that the treaty that is on the Floor of the House is incomplete. I am also raising a procedural issue. The fact that this treaty is incomplete – and the Committee Report tells us that it underwent public participation… In that sense, if what we have in the House is incomplete, it means even the public participation that the Committee held was also incomplete. So, on these two counts, the fact that this treaty is incomplete, and the fact that the procedure was canvasing an incomplete treaty, I seek your guidance as to whether we are in order to attend to the matter that is appearing in the Order Paper as Item No. 10. Thank you, very much."
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