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    "id": 1353604,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1353604/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": " Tanzania is a nation. You do not ask them what tribe they are. You do not do that. They feel for one another. The ones in the north, south, west have a single identity because the founding father or what you would say the first president of the country, President Nyerere pushed hard for that. You understand where Nyerere came from; he was a Zanaki, a sub-tribe of the Kuria. They are hardly 100,000 in numbers. Mkapa was from a subsection of what they call the Makonde, they are hardly 200,000. Kikwete, his community is less than 15,000 in Bagamoyo. For your information, right now, the Deputy Chair of Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) is a Somali. And, the president of CCM is from Zanzibar. Can we do that? Do you expect any day a Kuria will become a president in our country, in the manner that we are dealing with things? No! We have to build a nation. We have to create a nation by making sure that we feel for all Kenyans wherever they are. I do not have to feel more for a Somali, I have to feel exactly the way I feel. I go to Meru, Kiambu, Lodwar, Kisumu, those are my brothers and sisters. That is why we need to have a nation so that we care for one another. Not to say “those ones achananao ”, those ones are like this or that.” Everyone has a label. We go for elections then it becomes an alliance of tribes. It is not an ideological situation. How many big tribes can you bring together? How much of a winning coalition can you create of tribes not ideology, not a future, nothing of tribes and regions and the rest, and that is how we transact our politics here? And eventually go there and say that we are shareholders in that. Too sad. So, let us deal with this as a beginning. It is a pity that the House is not that big now, I mean we do not have so many Members of Parliament but we need to focus on the marine resources of our country."
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