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    "id": 1074315,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1074315/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to again weigh in on the Address of Madam President Samia Suluhu who visited Kenya. As a former Minister for Foreign Affairs this was extremely refreshing because I know how difficult it was sometimes to deal with certain mundane and intricate issues that arose between the two nations. However, we thank God that the Heads of States at that level were able to communicate and resolve most of the issues that took place in our situations. This visit has clearly been able to open up the political space between Tanzania and Kenya. This visit has been able to open up an economic space that was a bit narrow and tight in terms of policy and pronouncements. It has now been opened up and there is a wide range of activities that will create and promote the wealth and the health of Kenyans and Tanzanians and in the overall, overarching East African Community bracket because the population is well beyond 150 million. Therefore, we have a ready market within ourselves and if we expand to Ethiopia and South Sudan, then we have a much bigger market that we need not to struggle trying to sell manufactured goods. Manufacturing is the engine that will drive every nation and it is the engine that will create employment opportunities. Like now when we have a total of 1.7 million Kenyans who lost their jobs, this is a very welcome visit. It opens up a new mandate for both Kenya and Tanzania to ginger up the manufacturing sector on both sides, and therefore, the young boys and girls, young men and women who lost their jobs can be able to regain their jobs back and increase more job opportunities."
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