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    "id": 836244,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "important to verify those good things. We should not simply base our decisions on trust. You can say, “I trust and love, but I must verify so that I am not taken for granted.” It may be late to go back to this matter and see if there are risks we have exposed our farmers to. If there are risks, we should look for ways of reducing them. I link this to Pan-African Parliament because it is in these kinds of forums that we get opportunity to think broadly in terms of what is of interest to our home base. What is good for our home base – and does not hurt others – is generally good for everybody else. What may be good for everybody else may hurt us if we do not taken care of our home base. We can narrow down Pan-Africanism to, for example, the East African Federation as a component of Pan-Africanism. I know it is not part of the African Parliament. As a resident of Busia, which is a border county, I have major concerns about treaties being signed with the consequence of moving jobs from border areas to inland areas. Such treaties deny job opportunities to the residents of those counties. The residents of Busia-Uganda and Busia-Kenya have been greatly affected by the relocation of the services they were providing to inland areas. They have not been removed through competition and technological changes; they have been moved inland. This has denied border area dwellers opportunities for trade and for services that used to be rendered around those areas. We need to have a careful look at these developments. Good as an agreement may appear to be, we need to ask ourselves what the risks are. Good plans may have bad things embedded in them. We must be on the lookout for these kinds of things. These are not just theoretical matters; they are real issues. They affect real jobs. They affect real families. I am a big supporter of Pan-Africanism, federalism or one kind of unity or another. I am a big supporter of reducing sovereign pride so that we can worry about economic issues. However, I have a big concern about taking care of the downside risks that are involved. With those few remarks, I commend our colleagues sitting in the Pan-African Parliament for the good work they are doing for this country."
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