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    "id": 1074299,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "members of the Community are far greater than the benefits that would accrue if we decided to go our separate ways. I have had the opportunity to do some projects in Tanzania. In the past, it has been very difficult to get access to the Tanzanian corporate market. Even if you went there as a project manager just going to implement some information systems for a period of one or two months, the requirements around work permits, citizenship and immigration are obstacles. Sometimes, that stops Tanzania from taking advantage of some of the innovations that come from the region. I hope President Suluhu will work very aggressively to bring down those barriers to movement of labour and capital. We are sure from her Address that was delivered in Parliament and also from the assurances that the Kenyan Head of State gave that Tanzanians will not be subjected to rigorous work permit requirements and that the same will be reciprocated on the Tanzania side, so that we form one huge market for our youth and persons who are employed. There are people who denigrate Tanzanians sometimes that they studied Physics in Kiswahili or studied Chemistry using Kiswahili Language. When you go to Russia, they study everything in Russian. They do their trigonometry in Russia. So, there is nothing wrong if Africans build a body of knowledge and advance their language to a level where you can explain the Principles of Aristotle and the Philosophy of Socrates using your local language. It speaks to the heart and it is more memorable than subjecting people to foreign languages like English, Latin and other languages that are used in other countries that think they are more advanced. I want to encourage Tanzanians to maintain that national heritage and also maintain their favour of Kiswahili as a language of communication, doing business, education and socialization. In Kenya, we probably crossed the Rubicon because ours is hopelessly tribal. I want to paraphrase what someone out there said. They said that Kenya is a unique place where after every four or five years, you find politicians who are very urbanite and ride around with the latest Mercedes Benzes, S-Class, dine in the finest restaurants and have a very international view but when it approaches election time, they suddenly remember and go back to their tribes, so that they can be adorned in ostrich feathers and colobus monkey coats, given all sorts of concoctions, spend nights upon nights on end in solitude and go into withdrawal of conjugal responsibilities so that they can be seen to belong to a tribe; so that they use that to ascend to national leadership. Why should we try to ascend to national leadership through the narrow prism of ethnicity and tribalism?"
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