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"speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Ms. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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"legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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"content": "Regional integration is the way to go. When we enhance regional integration in our East African bloc, it makes us more competitive vis-a-vis other blocs. One of the issues that was raised in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) is regional integration. However, I want to caution that some of the things we need to look at very clearly, because this is a very serious issue, and because the court has even pronounced itself to it, we must speak to the issue of public participation, so that those who are practising across the border will tell us their experiences. That is a good way to go. That is the experience of lawyers practising that had initiated the process. The issue of reciprocity. I heard Hon. Chris saying that we may allow them though they may not allow us. That is not the way to go. We need to start even if it is an unbalanced reciprocity. Even if it is an imbalanced one, but, at least, if we start, maybe, on a ratio of 1:3, because some of them are not as big economies as us, it is good. Our legal profession has been more established than them. I worked a lot in Burundi and Rwanda before I came to Parliament, and so, I know what they are struggling with, but there should be some level."
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