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    "id": 1074319,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Shiyonga",
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        "legal_name": "Masitsa Naomi Shiyonga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Motion that has been tabled before this House today. I want to start by congratulating Her Excellency, President Samia Suluhu Hassan, for being elected the President of the Republic of Tanzania and the first woman in East Africa to hold that position. I congratulate her and all the women in East Africa and Africa as a whole. Madam Deputy Speaker, from President Suluhu’s Speech, most of her attributes were not only to a woman, but to all the genders that are represented here. She talked about the animals we share; where they come in Kenya, become impregnated and give birth in Tanzania. That alluded to the fact that she values animals and at the same time, she values what happens in animal environment. We can only be separated by boundaries that were colonially demarcated, but we cannot be separated by blood and hence we are relatives regardless of the boundaries. Many will argue that the position was handed over to her on a silver platter after the death of her predecessor. However, what happened was God’s plan; that, it was time for her to rule or to take over the country as a President. From her Speech, it is true that she can do it. Madam Deputy Speaker, many are saying that women are favoured. From Her Excellency Samia Suluhu’s Speech, it is time for women to rule. From where you are seated, you are the Deputy Speaker of the Senate and we learn a lot from you. We can say that you are doing well just like the Speaker of the Senate, Hon. Lusaka. There is no difference in executing the mandate. God created us all and, therefore, it is an honour when we are given an opportunity, we should execute it without fear of contradiction. I know that when she will be executing her mandate, she will deal with the economic barriers that have been there,"
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