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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Busia County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Catherine Omanyo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I congratulate the Committee for coming up with a heavy dossier about the East African Community. When I was younger, some of my uncles worked in Makerere and some industries in Uganda. They would move and get jobs easily. But along the way, the trade barriers and political instability threatened social cohesion. Also, producing similar products resulted in competition among member states. With that happening, the member states lost the grandiosity of being together and working together as members. By now, most nations do not have teething problems after colonialism. If most of these nations have clear targets and mean well, they can merge to be stronger and seek to come up with a common goal that can attract the international community and ensure that no nation continues to experience instability. Recently, I heard the president of Tanzania say that the instability in Kenya has made them gain in tourism and more investors. That was a sorry statement. If we mean well for each other, what a member state should do immediately if anything happens to a sister nation is to come in and see how it can help. It should not look like it is celebrating. So, that was unfortunate. We still believe in being together and not breaking away. An example we have seen recently is Brexit, where the United Kingdom (UK) insisted on withdrawing from the European Union (EU). However, what they had not seen was the bigger picture. Most of their professionals had come from the EU Member states. They are now wallowing in not having enough professionals like doctors. They are coming up with less strict methods of getting professionals. When you are together as member states, you can get professionals, expatriates, or somebody who can help when you lack something from other nations. It is scratching each other’s back and not competing as seen before. I applaud the Committee for coming up with this Motion. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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