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"speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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"content": "problems with the stand that you take, but if you take a stand instead of standing on the fence, you can resolve many problems. Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is why in Hamlet, Shakespeare says that above everything else you must be true to yourself. If you are true to yourself, you can never really bear false testimony to any man. Being true to yourself is not being true to your subjective needs, but being true to your inner self. It is your humanity. You can always do right. Hon. (Dr.) John Pombe Magufuli joins the series of historical leaders who have made a difference. This President of the United Republic of Tanzania was there for one term essentially because the second term he did not quite serve any substantial portion thereof. However, those who want to make a difference, when you take a stand and you believe in the stand that you have taken, you can always make a difference. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in China, what we see a lot about modern China; he was not quite a President, but he was like the paramount leader of China. He was Xi Jinping. I am not even talking about Mao Zedong. I am talking about Xi Jinping who never was chairperson of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was never even the Secretary General of the CCP. However, he took a stand that for China to become part of the modern economy, he had to create space. There were human rights violations in China, but he took a stand that in so far as China’s time had come to become a modern industrial state, China as a society had to change. Mr. Speaker, Sir, he opened up China. Although on the economic front, he had this famous quotation that he does not really care when people were confronting him with the ideology of capitalism and socialism. He said he does not care whether the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. The great lesson to learn from President Hon. (Dr.) John Pombe Magufuli is that you see how he changed the face of Tanzania in five years. Tanzania did not have a national airline. If you go to Julius Nyerere International Airport, you see the work that has been done at that airport. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you go to the sea front in Dar es Salaam, it is not only modernizing and expanding the port, but there is a sea bridge across the sea front in Tanzania. The kind of work, probably, that we would only see in South Africa in this region. If you see the airports that were being constructed and hospitals. It is not just the port of Dar es Salaam, there is Bagamoyo. He constructed the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), doing it at a percentage of what we are doing it here. He took a stand against corruption and that worked. This is because he was true to himself that he was fighting corruption, not in a haphazard way. He looked around himself to make sure that he was not preaching water and drinking wine. This was a great son of Africa, a true Pan-Africanist and a true Tanzanian, one that was determined to make a difference and take a stand on many things. Sometimes, when we talk about gender equality, we just talk about it in name. However, President Magufuli nominated a woman as a Vice President. He looked for the humblest woman to become his deputy, one who had also served with a lot of humility. As a result of that determined stand, even in his second election, he nominated the same person to be his deputy in Tanzania. Today, we have a distinguished woman as the President of the United Republic of Tanzania and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. How glad I 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."
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