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    "speaker_name": "Nakuru Town East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Gikaria",
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    "content": "never had a letter of invitation and yet we were going to attend a conference. We need to harmonise the members’ law. This will be an added advantage. There is also the issue of mobility of data which we need to understand. As we have said, this world is just a market and we cannot live in isolation. We have to integrate, cooperate and interact with others so that we can trade. Of course, the border control will help greatly. Before the Motion was moved, we were talking about the Kenya Somali border, where we are locking ourselves. Tomorrow we will have a problem with Uganda, and then we will lock ourselves when we are supposed to be opening up. It is ironical that we are trying to open up and yet we are locking ourselves. One of the reasons is the security of this country which comes first. The challenges are issues which we really need to look into. This is particularly on respecting the protocols and agreements. I think that is critical for us as a country. As we move towards ratifying this, we must also be assured that the other member states which have ratified or signed this will also respect the agreement in the protocol. It is not fair when we ask Kenyans to leave this country with their families and dependents to go to another country only for them to have issues after working and acquiring property. Look at what happened in South Africa. The country had issues with foreigners because her people felt that they were going to take up their jobs. This is something we must be assured of as a country. If I leave Kenya and go to any state and acquire property, I should be assured that my hard-earned property will not be taken within a fraction of a second. On security, you have seen what has happened in this country. Most of the people who will come will use this protocol on free entry and movement to say that they are will stay here for 90 days. We must be very careful with regard to our security. The other bit is about counterfeit goods. If you go to supermarkets, you will find that 75 per cent of the products come from different countries. We are infringing on the law on counterfeits. They do not meet the standards that are required. We must look at this protocol so that we do not bring so much counterfeit products into this country in the name of economic integration and doing business. I have spoken about the acquisition of property. On the aspect of refugees, how do we handle refugees with this protocol? Can a refugee walk in and say that since there is a protocol we forget some refugee laws? That gives us an indication on how to handle refugee matters. I am worried that out of the 32 countries which have signed, only one has ratified. It means, therefore, that they just signed for the purpose of showing some unity without necessarily ratifying. We have seen what has happened in Europe. Britain has exited from the European Union (EU)."
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