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    "id": 1069791,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to speak on a subject that is very close to my heart. I want to congratulate the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Her Excellency, Samia Suluhu Hassan, for her historic visit to Kenya; a visit that I think has changed the enabling environment under which the relationship between Kenya and Tanzania can only be strengthened and developed deeply. When I say that and when we talk about the relationship between Kenya and Tanzania, we have in mind all the time that if there is any discord between Kenya and Tanzania, the seeds of that discord were contributed quite a bit by the colonial government. I say this because the colonial government came with an idea of bringing Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika together under some association called the East African High Commission. The Chairman of the East African High Commission was the Governor of Kenya. The headquarters of that High Commission was Nairobi. Any services that were common were all headquartered in Nairobi or rather in Kenya. We had the East African Railways, Nairobi, East African Harbours and Corporation with its headquarters in Mombasa and so on. Nairobi was like the centre for East Africa. Other countries viewed Nairobi as the place to provide the leadership and that is why maybe we got spoilt a bit. Come Independence, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, a very forward looking statesman, said that he can delay the independence of Tanganyika if only we can get our independence at the same time and have the East African Federation. That was not to be and instead, the East African High Commission then became the East African Common Services Organisation. The structures remained the same and the only changes were in personnel. For example, we had the East African Airways whose headquarters was in Nairobi and its Chairman was Chief Fundikira Abdallah Said III from Tanzania. That proceeded and when all the countries became independent, it was felt that we should now have a formal relationship. That is how the East African Community was born. The feelings of Uganda and Tanganyika was that Kenya had received everything under the relationship. Therefore, an attempt was made to decentralise the headquarters."
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