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    "id": 844018,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "members of the military in Uganda. How can we be proud that we have a conference that should address issues of good governance, human rights and democracy when these issues are not brought forth to the Senate for us to debate? Madam Temporary Speaker, when we talk about issues of economic development and regional integration, we know the suspicion that has always been there between Kenya and other East African member states. We will never achieve economic integration in these regions if we continue treating each other with suspicion. I will give an example of the legal profession. We are supposed to have had cross border practice between the five member states of the East African Federation (EAF). Madam Temporary Speaker, when I was serving as the President of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK), we opened our borders to our brothers from Uganda. If you go to the Kenya School of Law (KSL) today, about 30 per cent of the students are from Uganda. However, our brothers across the border, both in Tanzania and Uganda, have refused to open the borders for our lawyers from Kenya on the pretence that if they open the borders for Kenyans, the legal profession will be finished in those countries. Now, with that kind of suspicion, we will never achieve the economic integration that is the dream of many people that live in the 12 member States. We can only achieve this if we accept that we are all brothers and sisters. These borders were an invention of our colonial masters. We should do away with them in terms of economic integration. We should be prefects of each other. Where we are going off track in terms of good governance, we should remind our brother on the other side of the border."
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