Wabunge wanasema ni wakati kwa Kenya kubuni baraza la kitaifa la kiswahili, kusaidia kuipa lugha hii hadhi inayostahiki. Wabunge waliokuwa wakichangia hoja ya mbunge wa Kamukunji Yusuf Hassan walisema kuwa, kuimarishwa kwa utumizi na hadhi ya kiswahili kutasaidia kuimarisha utangamano zaidi, sio tu hapa nchini na kanda ya Afrika Mashariki, bali pia dunia nzima ambapo lugha hii inaenziwa.

Nairobi's population is increasingly diverse, younger, and linguistically versatile. Recent demographic reports show that over half of the city's four million residents are under thirty-five years and identify with disparate ethnicities and nationalities. Besides the fifty or more Kenyan languages spoken varyingly across the county, speech communities from Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, and Zimbabwe continue to enrich the city's linguistic mosaic.

Tourism CS Najib Balala: Kiswahili ni lugha ya raha. Ukiwa na hamu ya kumtongoza mtu kibiashara, kimaendeleo na kimapenzi, lugha ya pekee ni Kiswahili.