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    "id": 702495,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kajuju",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Florence Kajuju",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, the Committee on Regional Integration has business pending before it. First, we have the Bills from the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) namely, The East African Community (EAC) Counter-trafficking in Persons Bill, 2016; The East African Community Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Bill, 2016; and, The East African Community Retirement Benefits for Specified Heads of Organs Bill, 2015. These were committed to the Committee on 5th October, 2016. The Committee is in the process of considering those Bills. The Committee has a meeting with various stakeholders so that it can finalise with the Bills and table them before the House. We do not have any petitions pending before the Committee. However, we have several Papers pending before the Committee that were committed to us on 5th October, 2016. We have the Report of the Committee on Agriculture, Tourism and Natural Resources on the oversight activity on poaching. We also have the Report of the Committee on Agriculture, Tourism and Natural Resources on the oversight activity on hotel classification and preparedness for a single tourist visa. We have the Report of EALA chapters on the sensitisation activities in EAC partner states as from 9th to 28th June, 2015 and the Report of the Committee on Accounts on the audited accounts of the EAC for the year ended 30th June, 2015. These were committed to the Committee on 5th October, 2016 and the Committee had a meeting with the various stakeholders. Once we finalise the report, we will table in the House. We have several protocols. The first protocol is the memorandum on the ratification of the EAC Protocol on privileges and immunities. We also have memorandum on the ratification of the EAC Protocol to operationalise the extended jurisdiction of the East African Court of Justice. Lastly, we have the memorandum on the ratification of the Nile Basin Cooperative Framework Agreement and the Agreement on the Nile Basin Cooperative Framework. The Committee has finalised discussions on these protocols and we are awaiting adoption by the Committee and tabling in the House."
}