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    "id": 1032268,
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    "speaker_name": "Ainabkoi, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. William Chepkut",
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        "legal_name": "William Kamuren Chirchir Chepkut",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, thank you for permitting me this opportunity to convey my heartfelt sorrow from my family, and Ainabkoi Constituency and Uasin Gishu County. The late Barmasai was a great son of Keiyo soil. Indeed, with assurance of honour, he was an educationist. He was a leader. He was indeed a KANU loyalist. He served President Daniel arap Moi who was an amazing President and the second President of the Republic of Kenya with distinction and commitment. He was the longest serving Chairman of Highlands Girls’ High School. Nowadays it is Moi Girls’ Secondary School, a national school. The late has left a sense of hard work and sense of commitment to his children and this country. I want to make it very clear that Hon. Joel Francis Kimurei Barmasai was gifted. Hon. Joel Barmasai attended Kenya Science Teachers College. Indeed, Hon. Joel Barmasai was a career public servant. He took up a position as an administrative officer and ended up becoming the Clerk of the then Wareng County Council in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County. Concurrently, he served in the boards of the Kenya Reinsurance Union, the Union Bank and Kenya Power. It is good to mention because if we do not say now, what other time will we say? So, this was a great man. I had mentioned to the State House Comptroller to inform His Excellency the President because Uasin Gishu has lost a great leader who served Uasin Gishu with a lot of dedication. Without much ado, your Excellency Mr. Speaker, Sir, may you and all honourable Members of Parliament permit me to say that this was a Member of Parliament like all of us. Permit me to, at the same time, convey my heartfelt sorrow to Hon. Murunga. He was a great person. In fact, he was going to the gym like me. He was punctual and committed. Since you are a gentle giant and I have said time and again that you are an outstanding person who balances… You are actually exercising the highest degree of persuasion and balancing act. May Hon. Joel Francis Kimurei Barmasai’s soul rest in peace. I want to encourage and persuade Members of Parliament that we believe in serving God. Let us be born again so that when the time comes, we shall all go to heaven and receive President Moi; we shall see Jomo Kenyatta; we shall see my hero, Hon. Nicholas Kipyator Kiprono Biwott, a total man, and Hon. Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, and so on and so forth. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am humbled. God bless you. Thank you."
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