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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lentoimaga",
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        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": "and we have done our bit. The report comes from all the stakeholders whom we met as a Committee, and our recommendations are based on what we got from stakeholders. We want to commend members of EALA, because they are doing a commendable job. They have done what was expected of them. Despite the fact that there are challenges in funding, they have done well, because they have actually instituted an oversight commission that follows up on all the funding to ensure that resources allocated to various institutions are used for the purposes that they were intended for. We need to also support that. This Committee recommends that we support funding of internal audit. Challenges are also there in terms of funding and the Committee would like to recommend that we encourage member states to remit their contributions promptly to EALA, so that they are able to face and deal with challenges. On the issue of funding by donors, I think it has really made the regional organization look like it does not belong to us. This is because we have not done much in sensitization. We have not done a lot of promotion the regional among Kenyans and East Africans; we need to tell them what really integration is. We need to encourage sensitization among East Africans. EALA can do that and so can many other institutions like this National Assembly and the Senate. They can a lot of sensitization and more funding can be put into the sensitization process, so that East Africans can know why we are integrating. I remember sometime back in 1977, the then East African Community collapsed. It collapsed because we did not know what was going on. Much of the information about it was only available to the senior people in the country, or the ruling class of that time. So, ordinary Kenyans, Ugandans, Tanzanians and ordinary Rwandese may not know really what the benefit of integration is. We need to address that issue and make sure we go forward and ensure sensitization is done well, so that we are able to make Kenyans and other East Africans able to fund the community more than they are doing at the moment."
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