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    "id": 1069750,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1069750/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 202,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "said it very clearly that Kenya is related to Tanzania in three areas, including our languages and communities. She said that we share communities. The President spoke with passion and in very fine Kiswahili. That is when you know very fine language. She was full of praises for the two Houses of Parliament. I wanted to use this opportunity to, therefore, thank Her Excellency for the endearing Address she gave. Madam Deputy Speaker, if you sat in that Chamber, you would not have fallen asleep or gotten destructed. You paid attention to her because she was very colourful in her language. The most important thing is that there were many policies and good things that came with her Address. The Address was full of very concrete areas of development. One of them that I noticed is that she particularly wants Kenyans to invest in Tanzania; to be free to move into Tanzania and for Tanzanians to move over. This is something that had been affected by the leadership that was before her. In my view, she has restored the good relationship that existed among our people. Our people still live on both sides. They move back and forth. She gave the example of our wildlife, which move back and forth. There is more to our relations with Tanzania than we think. We know that it had been affected by politics, and now she has tried her best to remove that barrier and allow our people to move freely. Madam Deputy Speaker, if you look at the way we relate, she mentioned three things. She spoke of our relations personally and also geographically. In the geography, she is very clear that we share a very long common border, both on land and seafront. Therefore, we have a reason to share together. She mentioned some major projects in her address. The one that caught my attention is the natural gas pipeline that is being proposed to move from Dar es Salaam into Mombasa. We share these resources. It is easier to move that gas pipeline from Dar es Salaam into Mombasa and back. She mentioned a number of roads that we are doing together as two countries. I am glad that during her State visit, she liked what she saw in Kenya. She praised the strides in development that the Kenyan Government has made. Madam Deputy Speaker, being a new person on the block, and she described herself that way, she had to come and introduce herself to the neighbours, which in essence is what you do when you are new. The neighbouring Presidents have been in office for a while. She has done a good thing. You seek advice from your neighbours, but also have something to offer such as fresh ideas for the enforcement and the strengthening of the East African Community (EAC). She mentioned this as one of our relations, that we are related historically. In history, we were the first to form the precursor to the EAC, that is, Kenya and Tanzania before we were joined into East Africa, where Uganda came in and then now it is the EAC. Madam Deputy Speaker, there is a lot to gain from good relations. Peace is one of the things that we gain from good relations. The freedoms that we get by being able to access our borders, we are able to defeat small issues like diseases, hunger et cetera. This is because if you have a better facility in Tanzania, and you are near there, you can benefit from that facility. If there is food in Tanzania, which is not in Kenya, it is easy for"
}