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    "id": 762745,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "As a country, we also need to move fast. We hope that in this 12th Parliament we will be able to fast-track and deposit it. We have a concern and we said as much the other day when we looked at another protocol of the East African Community (EAC). As it is now, we do not have Members of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) from Kenya. We would want the House Business Committee to take this seriously. I know our friends are not here. They were supposed to bring the names of their Members to EALA. As much as we are going to approve this Protocol, we also need to have our Members seated at EALA to articulate issues on the things we are passing. It is important that we have Kenyans working in the East African Community. Of course, we have other members in the East African Community working in all the countries. We would want all the objectives of this Protocol to be implemented and where we have an issue, we have a place where our representatives can take up the matters. It would be pointless for us to just approve protocols when we do not have any person representing us. I am saying this because of what happened in Tanzania. The way they handle and treat Kenyans when The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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