{"id":575134,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/575134/?format=json","text_counter":285,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Sakaja","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13131,"legal_name":"Johnson Arthur Sakaja","slug":"johnson-arthur-sakaja"},"content":"Let me wrap up the recommendations. We must deal with the issue of boundaries. Number three, we must deal with the issue of equitable sharing of employment opportunities as well as the Equalisation Fund. The regulations have come to this House. We need to bring up certain communities and areas in this country that have been successfully marginalised by previous regimes. Five, and we are very keen on this one as a Committee is that we need to ban the use of vernacular languages in public spaces and offices. It is very disheartening when you go to an office and everybody is trying to talk to you in one language, whether it is at the national or county level. There is a reason why Kiswahili and English are the languages that we have decided to be the official languages in this country. If you board a matatu in Tanzania with all your village mates and start speaking in your own language, it is frowned upon. It is not prohibited by law but it is just frowned upon. Let me finish because of time. Finally, we need to capture and implement the views and findings set out in the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) Report. I would like to ask the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party to second this and even go into depth. However, we need to set up a serious campaign even as we implement this to bring this country together. There is no bigger challenge to our unity as a country today than ethnic divisions and tribalism."}