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    "id": 824439,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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    "content": " I think she still did not get it right. Of course, we have had Onyancha in this House before and the names are fairly close, including the geographies where we come from. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to second the Motion and as has been mentioned, there are a number of things that we need to look at. One is that the Bills that we are talking about lapsed. That is most critical. They are Bills that lapsed and the House really needs to look forward in terms of whether these Bills are going to be re-introduced at the East Africa Legislative Assembly (EALA) or not. If they are, there are number of things that we really need to start looking at beforehand. Out of the four Bills, I might want to talk to two that are raising some very important issues. There is the East African Community Cross Border Trade in Professional Services Bill. That Bill is so critical based on the kind of experience that we see. We are seeing in some of the partner states either professionals or people who are doing their own business are in a lot of problems at the moment. You have seen this in Tanzania. People are being hounded for issues of work permits and all manner of things and in this Bill, there is a provision that I might want to really alert the Members of this House that we really need to look forward to because it is likely to help us a great deal. This Bill creates something that we call the East African Professional Disciplinary Committee, which has the mandate to address complaints against professionals that arise from cross border trade in professional services within the EAC. So, it, therefore, means that in the Bill there are areas of redress. So, when you have a problem in a partner state and you are a professional, this law will cater for you. We have a lot of Kenyans working outside this country The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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