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    "id": 1042940,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "been staying at the same hotel. Many evenings after the conference we would spend time together walking around and discussing many issues. At that point, I got to learn of the man that Sen. (Dr.) Kabaka was. He was a great friend and a person who interacted deeply and wanted to know more about people. A distinguishing factor about him that I do recall up to date is that on many occasions when we travelled as Parliament and in our delegations, you will hardly find Senators or Members of Parliament engaging the staffers we travelled with. Curiously, as we are giving our tributes to Sen (Dr.) Kabaka, I have recalled that most of our evenings we would hang out with the Parliamentary staff that we travelled with. This was Sen. (Dr.) Kabaka for you. He had a way of not distinguishing between the high and those that are considered not to be of their class or rank. He would interact freely with them, enjoy good times and share with them. This is the way of life. As the Bible says there comes a time when a man is born and a time to die. The time has come for our colleague to depart from this world. We are now mourning him. Tomorrow we shall go to his home village to bid him farewell and give our condolences to the people of Machakos County for losing such a distinguished leader. One of the greatest contributions we will never forget is what he did for us when we caucused together in “Team Kenya”. We had many sessions and meetings together. This was an issue that not many would have handled. You would imagine that coming from a county that was gaining and having your governor, who is fairly loud, get on all media stations and tell residents of your county how you are a useless person. That your county is supposed to be gaining certain amounts of money, but because of your other considerations, you are not supporting it. Since he was convinced in the course and path he had taken, he believed in a better Kenya as many of us who caucused during that particular time did, he stood firm. For those great attributes, I will forever cherish the moments and the memories that we had with this great colleague of ours. Finally, I conclude by reminding many of our mainstream media not to behave like tabloids because many things they said about him were very unfortunate. I called one of the editors and told him that we politicians have families too. Some of the things you are writing about people are completely unnecessary. It is not fair that it will come a time that people will say certain things about you. It is about media ethics that I hope can be respected and restored by the Media Council of Kenya (MCK). With those many remarks, I say rest in peace good friend and colleague, Sen. (Dr.) Kabaka."
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