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    "id": 758183,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wangwe",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to second this Motion. First and foremost, I was a Member of the Committee on Regional Integration that came up with the report that was brought to this House. We debated the creation of the EACJ. For the Members who have not understood what the Motion is about, there are three issues that have taken place, namely, the East African Customs Union Protocol, the Common Market Protocol and we are now in the process of restructuring and coming up with the Monetary Union Protocol of the EAC. The Customs Union came into force in 2005. All the East African partner states have already signed and ratified the various treaties aligned to the Protocol. The Protocol has helped the EAC member states to import various consignments at a single source. Now Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and any other East African Community member country that is hinterland can access goods through Mombasa within a single customs union. We also have the Common Market Protocol, which has allowed the movement of goods from one country to another at a very simple, fast and seamless connectivity. Movement of goods and services from one country to another, coordinated together with the Customs Union, as two protocols definitely results into dispute. We must have an organ that is able to listen to those disputes and address what has arisen from them. Therefore, by extending the jurisdiction of the EACJ, we are looking at the achievements of the Customs Union and the Common Market as protocols and how we resolve disputes that come about with the two protocols. Therefore, the faster we ratify the Protocol and extend the jurisdiction of the EACJ, the faster our people in East Africa at large will move their goods and ship in their products from whichever country. In case of any dispute, there will be a proper way of addressing it."
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