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    "id": 555096,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mbalu",
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        "legal_name": "Jessica N. Mbalu",
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    "content": "going to enhance the transport network. As we sign Protocol, we are echoing the words of Nkrumah, who said that Africa must unite. Let me cite some of the advantages that we will get from the protocol. The railway will facilitate long distance travel and transport of goods. Through the Northern Corridor Project, we will be able to integrate and trade within the East Africa as highlighted by the Protocol. The Northern Corridor is the transport corridor linking the land-locked countries of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi with Kenya’s maritime Port of Mombasa. Similarly, the Northern Corridor will serve the eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), South Sudan and northern Tanzania. Thus, the Northern Corridor infrastructure project will connect all the five countries of East Africa and beyond. Because of their heavy reliance on the Northern Corridor for overseas trade as well as trade among themselves, Burundi, DRC, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda are the contracting parties to the Northern Corridor Agreement. The Agreement provides the legal framework for collaboration among those countries on matters to do with transport, customs control, documentation and procedures as well as supporting the connectivity of the countries. Ghana became the first black African country to gain Independence in 1957. Kwame Nkrumah became the leading Pan-African in the negotiations leading up to the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963. All said and done - and as I support this ratification and the Report from the Committee - we are unequivocally echoing Nkrumah’s words: “Africa must unite.” Hon. Speaker, I thank you."
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