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    "id": 435957,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "professionals who, once they qualify, become idle. That is why LSK and other professional bodies have come up with continuous professional points. What framework has been put in place so that the respective professionals do not just qualify and avoid continuous development? I was in my village and saw a certain doctor prescribing some drugs for malaria. This good old friend of mine, an old doctor, was prescribing some old kind of drugs which are no longer recommended by World Health Organization (WHO). It is important that when professionals have qualified, they need to have continuous development. We already have a lot of paradigm shifts. That way, as the professionals continue practising, they are able to understand what the current practice is as far as their profession is concerned. We need to look at where EAC came from and where it is going. This is the area we need to focus on. Again, there is the issue of foreign relations. Did you involve the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations? That is because you find some matters are cross-cutting. It will be important that, next time, when such an issue is being discussed, to do a stakeholder analysis so that we have the line ministries in place. Let us hear what their take is. There may be other ministries concerned. You cannot afford to do this and the issue of foreign relations is not in place. Right now, Kenya and Uganda have issues relating to Migingo Island. We are discussing issues of boundaries and coordinates. We must start from there. The other related committees that are in place, we must involve them, so that we can walk the same path. But let us not just pass Bills for the purposes of East Africa. We must do a cost- benefit analysis and ascertain what values these Bills are adding to our country - not just East Africa but our country. Do a cost-benefit analysis. Tell us the merits and demerits. That will be good, instead of coming up with a blank report without due diligence being done properly and we are expected to rubber stamp it. I think this is the time we should not just be passing Bills without proper scrutiny. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support."
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