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"content": "long he will stay. For that reason, people have been visiting Uganda more and doing business in Uganda more. In fact, we must say this because we have this opportunity. Recently when we were very hard with the Somali community in this country because we said that they are the ones bombing us everywhere, we forced them out of this country and Eastleigh became a ghost town. That population is now in Uganda and they are very happy with them. They are also in Tanzania and Mozambique. They are continuing with business because they do international business. If you disrupt them in Kenya, they just move somewhere else with their money. I understand that they moved almost Kshs31 billion out of this economy. We will cry for it because we need business people to do business in this country so that we benefit from it. We do benefit in many ways because they pay rent, they pay taxes and the business that goes around itself including the people who visit this country because of that business, those who live in the hotels, those who rent buildings, those who pay our labour and so on. All these ventures will suffer for lack of business. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when you deal with an issue that involves a population in your country, you must be very careful to cultivate friendliness, integration and cohesion. You can only do so, when people speak to each other through these institutions and through other fora. Rwanda is a small country and those who are comparing it with Kenya are making a big mistake. The economy in Rwanda is a small economy. I am not sure if it can even compare with the economy of Kisumu, but they have done well in that small economy and we appreciate what they do. When we went there sometime as official delegation the Kenyans who came to meet us were in hundreds and all of them are consultants, engineers, business people, doctors, teachers and nurses. They have given us a window in which we can sell our labour. There is nothing wrong with that. We earn money and bring it back home and invest it here. So, this is a good move. In fact, I think we should be inviting more speakers from our neighbouring countries and not only speakers of assemblies, but even Presidents of our community countries, so that they do not only end up in State House and also come here and talk to us. They will listen to us debating our speeches. They will know where we seem to think that they could take us further and quicker. The genocide in 1994 was a shame for this community. The problem of Rwanda is very close to the problem of Somalia. They are one people and they speak one language. When you go there, you are not so sure who is a Tutsi and who is a Hutu. They have intermarried. They belong largely to one religion called Catholic. So, you wonder why they would ever fight. At least in Kenya, we have Kikuyus, Luos, Kambas, Luhyas and others with all sorts of things, including prejudices. They live in different places and have regions which they call their own and so on. In Rwanda, for example, they are mixed. There is no region of so and so. The language is the same. The religion is the same and even the ancestors are the same. So, sometimes you wonder why they should kill each other. Politics sometimes is a stupid thing. Some of us who practice it get ashamed that we are the ones who cause some of these things. Look at Somali, for example, one religion, one people, one language and there is nothing that differentiates them other than clan. Sometimes you look at it and wonder The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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