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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to reply. I would like to use this opportunity to thank all the Members who have contributed to this important Motion of sending our condolences, on behalf of this House, to the people of Tanzania, President Suluhu and the family of the late President Magufuli. At this point, I appreciate all Members who seem to have quite a lot of information on the late President. A lot has been said about the life and times of the late President. There has been a lot of individual activities including people who have testified to knowing him personally in this House. The late President Magufuli served as a humble leader in various positions and stations in life until he rose to become the President. As I said earlier, he made many achievements. It has been said that the late President Magufuli immediately begun to impose measures to curb Government spending. He suspended the country’s festivities in 2015 in favour of a national clean up campaigns and he succeeded in doing that. We can say many things that he did personally that would end up being policies that are difficult in other countries but he managed to bring them on board. He did his first foreign trip in 2016 within the East African Region. He also managed to ban Shisha smoking in Tanzania. He did that because he had the confidence of the people of Tanzania. The issue of mining has already been said. So, I will not repeat it. He brought in the growth in the economy. The important thing which we need to learn is that a President comes to work and serve within the term and must leave a legacy. So, our own President has the Big Four Agenda that he wants to leave as a legacy. A President elected within a limited amount of time, for example, two terms, must leave a legacy. He was ready within the first term and when he passed on, he already had a legacy. This is something that we can say. I will not belabor the point. We have mourned enough as a House. We have sent a message to the people of Tanzania that our brotherhood and sisterhood is strong and we are tied together at the hip. This is because we share common borders, prosperity and history. We welcome on board the new President of Tanzania, Her Excellency Suluhu. We would love to work with her and make sure that she grows from where the late Joseph Pombe Magufuli left. Madam Temporary Speaker, I did not get an occasion to also congratulate the new Deputy Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Madzayo. I know that he fits the bill when it comes to leadership. I am sure that we will work well together. I would also like to use this opportunity to congratulate the new Senator for Machakos, Sen. Agnes Kavindu Muthama and her role of taking over from a prominent Member of our society who left us. I heard her maiden speech and she is ready to work. I wish her and the people of Machakos well."
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