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    "id": 1157192,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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    "content": "a broker or a trader, who connects with somebody else in another country to move the goods. It is the same way to import goods from China. There must be an importer, a consolidator and an end receiver, either a hawker or small-scale trader, who then moves the goods to the final buyer. So, we need to find a way of integrating both local and international trade and, more so, with regard to goods that involve exportation and importation. The system, like any other system, must have safeguards to avoid infringement or data mining. That is why clause 7 will ensure that the system is secure, accessible, simple, confidential and reliable. Any trade system must allow all the actors, both traders and buyers, to access it so that they have adequate information about the goods and services being transacted. Anything that makes the system opaque will imply a market system that is not open, but is closed and not active. And that will hinder decision-making. Efforts must be made to ensure that we have an open system. There exists a Trade Facilitation Agency, which was established by an Executive Order in 2010. It is called the Kenya Trade Network Agency. By passing this Bill, we will incorporate the trade agency to become a body corporate so that it does not operate on Executive’s whims. Those are some of the measures that we need to be clear. The Bill, unfortunately, has a shallow provision that this system will be the national lead agency, presupposing that there will be other agencies involved in trade practices. It presupposes that there could be other agencies that could open a window system to compete with it. We should avoid these levels of windows or bureaucracy. This system should be the sole agency with respect to matters to do with international trade. Like any other data or ICT system, there is provision for electronic signatures and authentication of documents. Many of us who are old school and who were found by technology, and who might leave before we fully appreciate technology, always worry about how the system works. The system needs to be fool proof. As I conclude, because I can see my time is up, the Bill provides for appointment of various persons. There will be board members and Chief Executive Officer. Unfortunately, it leaves out the office of a company secretary, which is an important organ that has been incorporated in our system. The opaque appointment of the three other board members is not good. We need to make provision for a competitive process of appointment. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I could have said more, but I appreciate the rules of the House. I support."
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