Tz is just behaving like the UK [the real one!] in the early days of the EEC - long before it metamorphosed into the EU

I for one do not blame Tanzanians of being suspicious of Kenyans.

If you talk to Tanzanians you will find that one of their fears is that they do not want Kenya's vices exported to Tanzania.

1. According to them, Kenyans are very tribal oriented. They do not want that tribal hate exported to Tanzania where everyone lives in harmony and nobody cares whether the Prezzi is a Musukuma or Ngoni or Hehe or even Zanzibari. The first prezzi (Nyerere) was from an obscure ethnic group that has less than 100,000 people. The second was Zanzibari. Tanzanians do not care.
Tanzanians genuinely get along. There is no mawinder type tribal baiting. They do not want Kenyans flooding the place and poisoning the fresh waters of inter-ethnic harmony that exists there.
Because they do not care about a politcians ethnicity, they have the potential to build a better government by voting on issues and not tribalism.

2. They do not want Kenya's corruption exported to Tanzania. If you look at the issue of a common Visa, you know that corruption will be very endemic in this process. You will end up with criminal and terroristic elements such as Al Shabab getting Visas in Nairobi through bribery then gaining free entry into TZ to visit mayhem on Tanzanians.

3. Then there is the criminal element. Again Tanzania is traditionally very safe. Carjackings, muggings, burglaries etc of the type that are commonplace in Kenya are traditionally rare in TZ and when they happen, they are often committed by Kenyan criminals. With all this you understand why Tanzanians are leery of being invaded by Kenyans.

I was at a party with many Tanzanians and I told them that Kenyans bring technical expertise and know how to Tanzania and one of them told they they would sooner not have anyone from Kenya go there. In fact according to them, Kenyans can keep their technical expertise and investment.

4. One other thing they told me is that because Kenya is so dysfunctional and tribal, they think that Tanzania's GDP will surpass Kenya during our lifetimes, given that TZ is growing at a much faster rate and has recently discovered vast amounts of minerals. According to them, Kenya now wants a piece of Tanzania because they (Kenyans) are afraid that Tanzania is passing Kenya in terms of GDP.

There is an element of truth to all this but bitter and sour Kenyans would rather point a finger at Wa Bongo instead of examining our issues

@Alba,
If TZ is doing so well as you paint it,why then would they be a worried lot about the coalition of willing? At the moment,they seem desperate chasing the other EAC members down the road.If you had the chance to watch their parliament debate the issue last week,then you would know who the suitor is.As of now,KUR + SS + Ethiopia do need TZ but it's not a matter of life and death (Watch the launching of single visa custom in UK and tell who the loser here is)