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    "id": 1059735,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "levels of public debt, domestic debt, foreign debt, foreign dependency on their development and many others. Some of us met President Magufuli through the East African Community sectoral meetings. We do not hear about those sectoral meetings any more. The cohesion and integration of East Africa is now in danger of being derailed because of lack of regular meetings at high levels. We want to urge President Kenyatta as the new Chairperson of the East African Community to take the lead. South Sudan has been accepted as a member of the East African Community. I dare say that the solution to the chaos in Somalia may lie in its acceptance as a member of the East African Community so that the Somali warlords will find less and less incentive to fight over who controls a street, airstrip or a little port because as serious businessmen and women in this region, they will have a much far and wider market to play their business activities. If we had brought Somalia into the East African Community (EAC), I am sure that President Magufuli would have been on the frontline to champion this and I urge President Uhuru to do so. Forget about the little irritations between Kenya and Somalia. Those will be no more if we integrate even more so that we bring cohesion, brotherhood and above all a commonality of economic activities that benefit the people of this region. A bigger market is a better market. A bigger market is an avenue to prosperity. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if we can do this, this East African region will remain the beacon of hope for the African continent. Even when you go to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in West Africa, they do not have a binding language. When you go to South Africa, they meet and talk in English. When you go to Northern Africa, you have Arabic and others speaking different languages. However, in East Africa, Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura can leave here, go to Mbarare in Uganda and address a 90-year-old person in Kiswahili and they will communicate. You can leave here, go to Mtwara in Tanzania and speak in Kiswahili and you will communicate because we see each other as one. The legacy we want to build on President John Pombe Magufuli as the people of East Africa and those of us who aspire for higher leadership is to take the mantle that he took together with like-minded East African leaders and tell our people that united as a region we prosper. Parochial politics of getting into cocoons of nationalism that “ sisi niWakenya”, will take us nowhere; sisi ni Waganda will take us nowhere. We can unite and grow this region. Lastly, I proudly salute CCM and President John Pombe Magufuli because their party colours are green and the party colours of FORD-K is green. That is the direction to go."
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