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    "id": 887412,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "There was a time we were at the Namanga Border, and they had to call Dar es Salaam for us to be allowed in as Members of Parliament. It proved that our neighbours, Tanzania, are not keen on this arrangement. Kenyans are the beneficiaries of the same because we have more advanced human expertise and resources than them. Our currency is stronger than theirs. We are so much a head of then in very many things. Therefore, they look at us as the “big boy” who might bully them. As such, they step on these issues. We went to Kampala to check on the contributions of Lake Victoria Basin and the East Africa Commission on Universities. We found that they are not moving as per the protocols that were signed because the member states are not paying their dues. There are some states that have not paid at all. They say they are poor and, therefore, they cannot pay. So, some states are carrying others. For example, in the EAC, Kenya and Rwanda are carrying the other partner states. South Sudan has never paid a coin but they are still a partner state, but because we want to bring them together, we have to carry them as a burden. However, they are not contributing to the kitty to lighten the burden. Now, we have this problem that we are nursing at the EAC. When we go out, we ought to go there as a bloc and not as individual countries. We should go there as EAC to join the ECOWAS so that we have a bigger stake in the same. If we go there as single nations, we shall be in them and they will bend far away from us. It shall take a lot of time for us to reap its benefits. Some individual may reap its benefits, but we will not be achieving the local targets that we wanted when the EAC was formed. The original Community broke down in 1977. It took a lot of time for the East African Presidents to agree to open that window again. That is why EALA was started. We now have a Parliament in Arusha, which should be coming up with policies and protocols that need to be hammered to the member states. Despite the fact that we are trying to be together, we should put conditions for survival in this game. We should not say that we do not want a member state to run away from us because we want to be many and visit each other’s countries for some of these 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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