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    "id": 1363625,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon Temporary Speaker. I also rise to support the Report and to appreciate Hon. Wanjiku. I believe events have overtaken some of the things in that Report. Having said that, I appreciate that there are issues in it that are key. If you look at the Report that was done way back in 1985 when this treaty was enacted, East African countries came together in 2006 and agreed on how to move on to enhance cross-border trade investment and reduce costs. One of the things we did, as Kenya, is the Standard Gauge Railway. It came to enhance trade and integration and reduce the cost of transport in those countries. What we need to push in this House is to ensure we realise what the President is trying to do by bringing the Standard Gauge Railway through to Malaba. That way, we will have expedited the movement of goods and reduced the cost of transport. We shall still be a key hub of transit within the EAC. When we talk about the Northern Corridor, which is the route we take through Gilgil Town going all the way to Malaba, we also need to ask the Government to think of how to give us an expressway or something like that. The expressway has become a very busy road for those who are using that road. We lost 11 people just the other day because it is a very busy road. With this rain, all the trucks on the road, and how we drive, it has become a risk to many. We also have border management agencies. Those agencies were to come in to ensure a one-stop border point for goods coming in and leaving. With the new regulations Tanzania has brought in, they are advancing more. Trucks coming from Tanzania have more security features than ours. For goods coming even from Mombasa going up, many people prefer to use the Port of Dar-es-Salaam. Mheshimiwa Wanjiku knows when we talk about cross-border trade because she has been in the East African Legislative Assembly. They are advancing their transport system very much. As Kenya, we have to pick up and advance. We have always been way ahead. Right now, we are forced to catch up on many things. Tanzania is doing everything correctly, to ensure its transit system is safer and faster and yet, we have the shortest route. However, you will find people prefer to use the Port in Tanzania. The most important thing for me is how to ensure this Committee works with the region very closely. I hope our Cabinet Secretary for the East African Community, ASALs and 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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