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    "id": 1349767,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I take this opportunity to congratulate you on being elected as the Chairman of the East African Bureau of Speakers. I know you have the capacity. It has always been my wish that we should make the East African Community (EAC) what it should be and what it has been. Many of us grew up knowing that it was one unit. We had one currency, railway, harbour, airways, university and road services. People were moving across without any barriers. That is where we should be. You should take it back there. When we go to the EAC, we should not do it as individual countries trying to fight each other. We should go there to create one unit that works together for all of us. I know you are capable of doing that. It will be a great thing for this area. Now that it has expanded, it will be a huge market with one infrastructure. It will extend from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean across Zaire. I feel that excluding staff from participating in the games is discriminatory. They are part and parcel of the legislative bodies. Excluding them or anything that brings a barrier between the staff and legislators should be discouraged. I know you can reconsider that. Finally, we should also extend the games. The leader of the Majority Party said that some people cannot play some games. There are new games that we should bring in, and that can bring people in, particularly the elderly. A game like Bao, which I do not know what it is in English, can be brought in. You know better English than me. We can also bring in the"
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