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    "id": 1059709,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "The Senate appreciates his efforts to foster unity and peace within the East African Community especially the role Tanzania has been playing in stabilising Somali and its neighbor, Burundi. It also recognizes the high esteem in which he was held in the African Continent in his pursuit of Pan-Africanism. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are mourning and are within the 40 days of mourning that Tanzania has declared. It is also within the number of days that our own President declared mourning in our country. We have seen and followed the progress from the day that we lost the President of Tanzania, Dr. John Pombe Magufuli. The closeness that our country has with Tanzania is natural and is as old as can be. We understand from the beginning of the struggle for Independence that the three East African countries then supported each other and the rest of Africa to get independence. When Dr. Magufuli was elected as the fifth President of Tanzania, he brought in a new type of leadership that was very different from some of the leadership we have seen before in terms of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) policies. Here is a man who worked like he knew his days were few and numbered. He worked tirelessly and the media followed him everywhere. We saw a man who went to the villages and spoke directly with villagers and sorted out issues in a style that had hitherto not been seen. Dr. Magufuli entered office with a view to save the economy of Tanzania and he has gone about it in various ways to make sure Tanzania’s economy has grown. He will be known for reviving Air Tanzania and many other achievements including fighting corruption. The spirit with which he fought corruption, he fought as though he knew he can serve one term or two terms. He worked hard to eradicate corruption in the provinces where it had become entrenched, it is like our counties right now. Those are the same situations. He went round and addressed those issues head on. We cannot have enough time for every one of us to speak about Dr. John Pombe Joseph Magufuli fully because I know there is interest and I am not going to take too long to express my own condolences, those of the people I represent of West Pokot and my family to the people of Tanzania and to make sure that we speak directly to the people of Tanzania. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are some difficulties that we faced as a country and as a people during the times when John Pombe Magufuli was President. Some of them are things like the people of Kajiado County when the livestock was taken in that direction, I do not know whether it came back. There was a bit of friction but the overall brotherhood that we have with the people of Tanzania did not change. The cross-border businesses have continued between our people and the people of Tanzania. We only had one place where we could not agree on; the COVID-19 issue and handling of the disease in the two countries. We handled ours differently from the way Dr. John Pombe Magufuli handled it in his country. He was a man that had many attributes and had many friends in this country. He had direct friendships with people in this country including His Excellency the President, the former Prime Minister and many others. I want to register the condolences of this House so that at the end of it we can extract a message that will go through the High Commission of Tanzania to the people of Tanzania and to Her Excellency President Suluhu. Mr. Speaker, Sir, because ours come in a bit late in the day, many of the people have spoken on their own on various media forums. However, here is our collective thought. Here is a time when the Senate of Kenya is going to show that we have also mourned along with our Government and the other sister House that has already had theirs. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
}