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    "id": 1363573,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1363573/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "I was saying that I want to encourage Hon. Wanjiku and the Regional Integration Committee to ensure that they also serve as a facilitative committee. They should oversee the Minister and the departments in charge to ensure that all those road blocks do not become a hinderance to trade. There is need for efficient movement of goods and services across our region. The President said that we have a visa-free regime, especially with our neighbours with whom we can quickly trade. It is possible to have breakfast in Nairobi, lunch in Kampala and dinner in Kigali, and go back to Nairobi to sleep. Therefore, with that arrangement, we will be able to move goods and money across the region. I want to encourage us to ensure that we move towards a common currency in our region so that we are able to deal with the problems that we are having today of hard currencies across the world. With those many remarks, I once again congratulate Hon. Wanjiku Muhia for her diligence, her Vice-Chair for being available in the House and the Members of the Committee who took time to travel across the northern corridor to identify areas that are disincentives to our trade. Those areas can become non-tariff barriers to the trade between the East African countries. They also spoke to issues to do with the One-Stop-Border-Posts. I beg to support."
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