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    "id": 1024263,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "My father is a retired teacher. He has many problems with me because I joined politics – that I left a thriving legal practice for politics. Why? It is because he has looked around and has hardly seen any evidence of any person who left Parliament and had anything for himself, including people in my home town who were Cabinet Ministers. I had a Minister for Health, who perished. The other day he was burying his spouse in deplorable conditions. I have had former Members who are now deceased. Hon. Okuku Ndiege and Hon. Tom Mboya are people who have done more than anybody in this House will do in the combined time. But looking at life after their demise, I can only say that my father was right when he said that he could not see any reason why I should leave a thriving legal practice to come and put my time here. So, since I have the opportunity, the Floor and the power to make law, I will make law such that the people who will come after me will know that the practice of politics is really about giving back to society but you are also not getting poor."
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