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    "id": 1363714,
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    "speaker_name": "Kigumo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Munyoro",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity. I support this Report and congratulate Hon. Wanjiku Muhia for preparing a comprehensive Report on the issue of One-Stop Border Points. One of the things that should be emphasised is having a legal framework that supports all the countries we share borders with. If you look at the movement of goods and services, one of the biggest hinderances – you had noticed this even as we were analysing the trade that we have – is the delays that are sometimes caused unnecessarily at the border points by different legal frameworks that people have to try to be on the right side of either country. Secondly, it is very important that we make the movement of goods and services trouble free. Having over 20 roadblocks for goods that have been checked and sealed is totally unfair to transporters, drivers and anyone else involved in that business. It is like you are working at cross purposes. If you look at the Police Service, they are under one command, which means that if a certain road block has confirmed that the goods are okay, then there should be no need for having more than 10 in the same journey. Our agencies are able to tell the people who are notorious and say that certain transporters or people are notorious and their trucks or transport companies would be looked at, so that the people who are obeying and complying with the law are able to do their business as they should. I also think that the issue of weighbridges also falls under the same. Why would you have someone taking your weight at Athi River, then 10 kilometres later, someone else is insisting on doing the same? We are trying to make working for our country easier and doing business faster and good for everybody. The Committee has prepared a comprehensive Report on these matters. They visited the ports, and anyone who has been able to travel via road between Kenya and Uganda, for example, has observed that there are different measures on different sides. The facilities are also different. One side has better facilities than the other. The other issue I want to mention is that of having all the agencies that do checking - the police, KRA and everybody involved - to work at the same spot so that you do not have people being delayed during their journeys because you were cleared by one agency and officers at the other agency are not there. I wish we can make movement of goods and people easier for everybody. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I will finish by asking whether in the Committee - because I have heard three honourable Members and they are all ladies - Hon. Wanjiku Muhia has… ( inaudible ). That is on a light note. With those remarks, I support."
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