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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "The other point that I wanted to mention is the issue of tribalism, ethnicity which Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. has mentioned. I am a firm believer in the political, economic and social integration of East Africa. I believe if we have in place that political federation for East Africa, a number of the problems that are bedeviling the member countries will be dealt with in a very nice way and we shall be learning from each other. The other countries may learn from us how to be entrepreneurs, how to make money and so on. We shall also learn from them how to be naturalists, how to think African and not how to think Luhyia, Kamba, Digo and so on. We shall be learning from them. As Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. said, we shall learn how we can keep our cities clean the way Rwanda has done. With this thing that Madam Suluhu has now began as president and she has a whole four years to go in that presidency, I really appeal to her to be as the mother of East Africa; to be the one who will slow down people who are angry with each other. She can be the mother who will mediate between the various quarrels, most of them petty between countries, so that we can focus on what she rightly said, what can bring economic and social development for our people. At the end of the day, all these structures that we are recreating whether it is devolution in Kenya or in East Africa, the aim is one. The aim is to ensure that the standard of living for our people goes high, progresses, develops and that we can talk with our chests high in the world today. Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak on this very important visit which I say is a historic visit. It has changed the atmosphere in Kenya and by extension in East Africa and we should not let that environment again be poisoned by people who may not want us to come together for the benefit of our people in this region. With those few remarks, I support."
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