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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to support the Report of the Committee on One-Stop Border Posts in the EAC. We are actually crying and chasing something we lost 60 years ago. We had it and we lost it. Members have talked about single currency, a single market and free movement of people and services. That is exactly what we had before Independence. We were moving towards a political federation and that is what we are talking about here. In fact, the late President of Tanganyika was keen to delay its Independence so that the three East African countries could come together as one nation. We had everything going for the East African Community. We had the University of East Africa with Law Degree being offered in Dar-es- Salaam, Medicine Degree in Makerere and Engineering Degree in Nairobi. We had the East African Road Services, the East African Railways and Harbours, the East African Post and Telecommunication, and the East African Research Council. If you were to put all these institutions together, we would have been a free movement. I remember as a child, we moved from Kenya to Uganda. We had relatives all over. When they closed the borders, some of my relatives remained in Tanzania and Uganda because they did not see the need to come back to Kenya. The first Director of the British Training School for Cooperative Societies in Tanzania was from my village. He was there as a Tanzanian while his mother was in my village as a Kenyan because she refused to move. That is what we 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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