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    "id": 1461428,
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    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "in Uganda. I live on the border. I have gone through the Report and they have raised pertinent issues which are not new. They have been with us for a long time. That is why I sometimes wonder what the East African Legislative Assembly does. We have been talking about these issues which were the foundation of EAC. We seem not to be moving at all. I hope the Committee will share this Report with EALA Members so that they can pursue these ideas as we move forward. Over the past few years, there has been tremendous improvement in the relationship between the countries with the one-stop border points. You walk in and do not spend a lot of time. You walk into the Namanga One-Stop Border Point and find the immigration office of Kenya and Tanzania. You go to Busia One-Stop Border Point and the arrangement is the same. It is either by coincidence or whichever way, that I do not need a passport to go to Uganda. When a Ugandan looks at me, he thinks I am Ugandan and they do not need a passport to come to Kenya in Busia area. Since we speak the same language, we can go through. I am really in favour of recommendation No.11 which states that, “East African qualification framework should support credit transfers among the universities within the EAC member states”. We have so many Ugandans who school in Kenya. At one time, we had so many Kenyans going to school in Uganda. The process of equating the Ugandan qualifications to Kenyan qualification sometimes is unnecessarily too cumbersome. Since we do not seem to pursue the same education standards because Ugandans go up to A-Level and we do not, we must find a regime whereby, we are able to equalise these qualifications so that we can have seamless transfer of skills and competencies from one country to another. For those of us who went to school much earlier, many mathematics teachers were from Uganda. The teacher who taught me mathematics in Form One at Starehe Boys Centre was Ugandan. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I seek your indulgence to give me one minute to talk about the harassment of fishermen in Lake Victoria. As the Committee clearly observed, we do not have shortage of fish resources in Lake Victoria. The shortage is man-made and is as a result of bad fishing practices."
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