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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kajuju",
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        "legal_name": "Florence Kajuju",
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    "content": "Those are some of the measures that the Committee has come up with to ensure that we have clear guidelines on issues of security. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, what we should know as a House is that those protocols that we are ratifying today do not interfere in any way with our sovereignty as a country. There will be total respect to the national laws of the respective countries. Any protocol that is signed must align itself within the respective national laws of each East African partner state. Therefore, there cannot be any inconsistencies and conflict between any protocol that we are ratifying as a country, or any other laws that exist within respective countries and within the Constitution. The other thing that I wish to raise in support of these protocols that we are ratifying today is that when there is an alternative settlement of disputes, then any disputes that arise do not necessarily have to undergo the court process. We have the East African Court of Justice (EACJ). However, if there is a dispute between Uganda and Kenya, say, the issue raised by Hon. Mbadi regarding Migingo, we do not necessarily have to run to court. That is because it will be a security issue and, therefore, with the ratifying of these protocols, those kinds of disputes can easily be settled through the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanisms. I, therefore, support these protocols that have been brought by the Committee. I thank the Committee for finding it necessary to bring those issues before us today for ratification. This is because I believe that they have looked at each and every clause that was before them and found it fit. So, we can now quicken the process of integration within the East African Community. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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