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    "id": 496644,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/496644/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 981,
        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "just thinking about how I will get a job in my county; I am thinking about a job in EA and Africa. So this integration in the EA will help us to fight the problems in our country. In Kenya, we have become very insular. We only think about our counties; we only think about our tribal problems; we only think about ourselves when there is a bigger world, bigger markets and bigger frontiers to be concurred. When we become the EAC, properly so called, integrated, and all the pillars working, we get better bargaining power in the global economy; we get a better voice in Africa and a better voice internationally. That is indeed the way to go and that is why today I stand to support this report strongly, to ask that those of us with fears, there is enough time for the fears to be dealt with. As I conclude, I wish to ask that we continue with the sensitization process. As I said again with the ECOWAS programme, the sensitization process has gone up to the school level, university level and the community level: The women of West Africa travelling from one country to the other country is no longer a story. So, we need a lot of sensitization. Our people here in Kenya have to understand what the benefits will be of us having---"
}