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    "id": 1069795,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1069795/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 366,
        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "was really an achievement. Although Tanzania’s export to Kenya began almost levelling up with Kenya’s exports to Tanzania, at the end of 2019, Kenya’s export to Tanzania was US$330 million and Tanzania’s export to Kenya was US$269 million. Trade began leveling up. Magufuli even went further to ban the Kenya Dairy and Kenya Airways and we all know the differences that came about. Therefore, although we were in the East African Community, we did not appear to be partners. We appeared to be competitors. We did not appear to be strategic partners in economic and social development; we appeared to be competitors. Madam Temporary Speaker, that is why I really laud the first woman president in East Africa, Hon. Samia Suluhu Hassan. With a light touch, one of the Luhyia ethnic sub- group they are called Samias. When Samia Suluhu came here, she has really provided an enabling environment under which we can now develop far much better. We can only realize the benefits of this new relationship if both the Kenyans and the Tanzanians in all fields, be it business, professional, regarded each other with respect. Sometimes Kenyans say: “We are now going there”, they should realize that Tanzanians are also coming. When it comes to natural resources, Tanzania is more endowed in terms of natural resources than even Kenya. This relationship which Hon. Suluhu has now enabled will be a relationship based on mutual respect. I feel that what Madam Suluhu has done is going to enrich and further enhance the cooperation within the East African Community because as you know, the member States have already signed the Customs Union. They have already signed the common market. The East African Monetary Union is currently being negotiated. Maybe in the year 2024, we should be having the Monetary Union. However, all these will be meaningless if the actual relationship on the ground is not amicable. Madam Suluhu’s Address has made that relationship to be amicable and we should be able to benefit from that relationship. Madam Temporary Speaker, I think the East African Community is going to go further. Madam Suluhu made a very important point about language. After retiring as the Attorney-General and when I was thinking that I may join politics and I could not speak Kiswahili, I went to the Institute of Kiswahili in Zanzibar where I was taught some rudimental Kiswahili which makes me get along. In order to become East African, I had to go there merely to refine it so that I can speak proper Kiswahili---"
}