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"content": "The headquarters was moved from Kenya to Arusha. Of course, where we now have the courts was the headquarters of the East African High Commission. The East African Posts and Telecommunications’ headquarters was moved to Uganda. It is important for people to realise that as a deliberate measure to ensure that at least other countries shared a little bit more equally with Kenya in the assets of the East African Community. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am just going through this because I have a very short time. On top of that, the differences in development brought about by the policies of the colonial government after independence; an attempt was made to decentralise the East African Community and to make partners equal, we had three Ministers from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. There then developed what we call differences in ideology. In Tanzania, we had the Arusha Declaration. I must say that at that time, as Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. said, I and his father were students in Dar es Salaam, we demonstrated in support of the Arusha Declaration and in support of the nationalisation of the key heights of the economy like banks, insurance, housing and so on. However, in Kenya, that type of socialism was not to the liking of Kenyans. In Kenya, instead, we had the African Socialism Paper No.10, which was crafted by the Late Tom Mboya and the Third President of the Republic of Kenya, His Excellency Mwai Kibaki. Although it was called African socialism, at the end of the day, it was capitalism; market economy and so on which was very different. There was no question of nationalising banks, insurances and so on. There was a question of encouraging farmers, be they large-scale farmers or small-scale farmers. In Tanzania, the emphasis was that everybody must be added into the village. What we call the villagisation policy and so on. Therefore, differences of ideology came in. We all know that in Uganda, Idi Amin came and Nyerere could not sit with Idi Amin at the Summit. That together with what we have said, the differences, led to the breakdown of the Community in 1977; the community, which began to be revived in 2000. However, that spirit that Kenya had been favoured was very much there particularly in Tanzania up to the time President Magufuli took over. If you look at the balance in trade, it was very much weighted in favour of Kenya and Uganda. When we were there as students, things like toothpaste, Omo for washing; all these things were being manufactured here and sold in Tanzania. Now Tanzania felt they must also industrialize and therefore the trade began improving but they could not really compete with Kenyans. When I was the Chairman of the First Tracking Federation, when we went to Tanzania, most of the leaders there said that they do not want to move too fast to open up Tanzania because in Kenya, we are capitalists, we are very aggressive and we will take over Tanzania. They said that we should wait for them to also develop those habits before they can properly federate. Then came Magufuli. One thing that Magufuli succeeded in doing is transforming Tanzania from a least developed country to a lower middle-income country within a space of five years. That"
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