Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1316322,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1316322/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 274,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "had, but we are still struggling with the East African Treaty that we started. We are still on the bit of single currency and free movement. We are writing and talking, but we are not doing anything. We are all aware that the power of nations is in numbers – that is the size of a nation and its population. If you look at India, China, Russia and the USA, the single big factor about each of them is that they are big countries with large populations. That is what we want. I, therefore, plead with our people in Kenya and other East African countries that when they are in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), they should not adopt an adversarial attitude as if we are competing against each other. We should embrace a cooperative attitude and work towards building one big nation of East Africa. Although we have not got the three countries together, we now have South Sudan, the DRC, Rwanda and Burundi as EAC member States. If we do business together, professionals within the community can move and practice their trade anywhere within the community as and when they want. How wonderful would that be? We are tied up because of the small considerations. Some of us have realised that if we become one big union, the problem of tribalism will just fizzle out. There will be no single tribe that will say it is the major tribe because the whole region will be very large. It is amazing that animals and diseases are doing better than us. They do not know boundaries. They move from one boundary to another and we acknowledge that."
}