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    "id": 1363734,
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    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wanjiku Muhia",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. On a light note, we have able men in my Committee. Hon. Japheth is a Member. The Vice- Chairperson is Hon. Farah Salah. We have Hon. Zaheer and Hon. Salasya too. If the Info-Track report is anything to go by, the top 10 men were from my Committee. Having said that, allow me to thank all the Members who have debated this Report objectively. I am sure many Members were not expecting this Report today. As you heard, many had prepared to contribute to it in many Sessions, but it was never reached. I hope the Office of the Clerk has also noted that matters of regional integration are of interest to many Members. The way Members have spoken passionately means that such business should always be given priority. Hon. Temporary Speaker, Members have raised many issues. I will try and summarise them. On the issue of adequate funding, this is a recommendation in our Report. My committee is planning a conference for all Regional Integration Committee Members from the seven partner States and all the chairpersons of the budget committees. We intend to exhaustively discuss the matters concerning the budget in the EAC. It does not have any meaning to have a Community that we are not budgeting for and funding. We have staffing challenges and the one-stop border post is not effective and efficient because of lack of sensitisation and other issues. The other issues relate to hygiene, people with disabilities and parking fees. We hope that this Parliament and many other Parliaments within the partner States will put to an end this discussion on the budget. On the issue of roadblocks, we invited the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration. He committed that from 1st November 2023, there would not be any roadblocks apart from the point of entry and the point of exit. We have not received any report. As such, I know our clerks are following this debate and we shall invite him again to give us the way forward. On a light note, maybe he was waiting to redeploy them to Haiti and now that there are still challenges, he is still planning on where to redeploy them."
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