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    "id": 435946,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "the EAC. It would be proper for us, as the big brother, to take the leadership in terms of support to the EALA and even urge that the EALA moves with speed to enact relevant laws or required laws to make sure that we realize the dream of the EA integration. Before we go to the political integration, we have to carry through economic integration. Having said that, I must also point out as my other colleagues have spoken before me, even as we integrate, we need to be very careful and we must look at the Bills that are being enacted into law by the EALA to ensure that whatever is passed there conforms to our domestic laws and that there is synergy between the laws passed in EALA and the ones passed domestically or through the National Parliament. This, therefore, takes me to support the report of the Committee which suggests--- I was very keen on the one on the EAC Cooperative Societies because we cannot overemphasize the role that the co- operative movement has played in this country in terms of development and support to those low income earners in this country. If it were not so, the movement in this country, even some of the properties that we see around Nairobi and across the country would not be there. A lot of this real estate is financed through the co-operative movement. Therefore, we must be careful even as we support the regional legislation on co-operative societies to ensure that they support our local co-operative movement. I must also talk about the Bill on education. Education is what allows us to be competitive even globally. Therefore, the kind of education system; the kind of education structures that we put in place should be those ones which make us competitive, not only within the region but internationally. We must look at the Bill on education with a lot of keen interest. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is also the issue of the legal practice. This, to me, is a very good Bill in the sense that if I have a case within the region, I should predict how the case will go. Currently, we are confronted with a related, but very interesting matter not within the region; the so-called Anglo Leasing issue. Without anticipating debate, you will realize that the Kenyan courts have declared some of the companies that we are talking about as non-existent, closed, et cetera . However, someone somewhere in the world, say, London, is saying that they exist and we should pay them."
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