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    "id": 1245746,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wanjiku Muhia",
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    "content": " Hon. Members, this is very important. The Committee of Constitutional Experts drafting constitutional amendments for political confederation is here in Kenya, and this process has been on-going in East Africa. So, Parliament is expected to give its views. As such, the Clerk’s Office has mandated the Committee on Regional Integration to write a memorandum and present its views to that Committee of Constitutional Experts. Hon. Members, in this case, we invite your views through our Committee or the Clerk’s Office to enrich that constitutional amendment. For clarification, the EAC is built on four pillars; that is, the Customs Union, Common Market, Monetary Union and, eventually, Political Federation. The Summit, the highest level of governance in EAC, directed that we have a political confederation as a transition before we engage in a full-fledged political federation. In this case, the confederation requires a constitution to guide the Community. So, it is critical to have your views. Any person or member of goodwill is welcome, through the Clerk’s Office or our Committee - particularly the lawyers in this House - to give their views so that we can take an immensely enriched memorandum to Arusha which will be considered in that constitutional amendment. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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