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    "content": "our colleagues in the National Assembly had amended the Ratification of Treaties Act, the leadership of this House through the Majority Leader has not managed to pass that amendment through which we sought to reinstate our position of treaty making in this Republic. So, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, while we have been given a mandate with my colleague, Sen. Murkomen and others, we will still find ourselves shorthanded because we cannot participate in amendments to any law on treaties. It is possible that we would do so. Therefore, I still think that the Bill that was here in the Senate about ratification of treaties should come back so that we do this properly, and then, reinstate our position in the ratification of Treaties Act. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as Sen. Wako has said, the character of EALA has slightly not represented our interests. I have not seen its impact, maybe because the reports do not come to this Senate; but I agree with Sen. Wako to the extent that we must change the character of that House so that the persons representing Kenya should represent our interests. There are many things that are not going right in the East African Community (EAC). There is something that lawyers call “cross-border practice”. Sen. Wako, as the Attorney-General, caused there to be joint practice where lawyers can practice all over East Africa. Being one of the lawyers who studied law in Dar es Salaam, he cannot go back as a senior counsel as chair to practice in Dar es Salaam. It is a tragedy. You cannot practice law there yet he is a product of that first university which trained one of the best lawyers in the country, Sen. Wako and other judges who are sitting on the bench today. So, the representation of the country and our interest is important. They might not confess – our previous colleague, Sen. Keter, was stopped somewhere in an airport where his passport was confiscated on mismanagement of our East Africa affaire. The oil pipeline that we took so much pride in could not cross over. The incentive that the Jubilee Government was talking about on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is that it would cross over to our neighbours. We all know that contract was cancelled."
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