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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, on a sad note, I wish to inform you that I did notify Members of the National Assembly and the entire parliamentary fraternity of the untimely passing on of the Member for Kabuchai Constituency, the Hon. James Lusweti Mukwe, MP on 4th December 2020. Upon receiving the sudden news of the death of the Member, I constituted an ad hoc committee under the chairmanship of the Member for Kwanza Constituency, the Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi, MP, to assist the family with funeral and related arrangements on behalf of the National Assembly in line with the Parliamentary Service Commission Bereavement Policy. Hon. Members, the late Hon. Lusweti made his first attempt into elective national politics as a FORD-K youth winger in the mid-1990s. In 2002 he successively vied for and won a seat of a councillor for Chwele Ward in the then Bungoma County Council, a position to which he was re-elected in 2007 General Election. During his tenure as a councillor the Hon. Lusweti earned the trust of his fellow councillors and got elected as the Chairman for Bungoma County Council in 2004, a position he held until 2007. The late Hon. Lusweti was known for his servant leadership approach as a councillor and the Chairman of Bungoma County Council, which catapulted him to the National Assembly when he successfully vied for and won the Kabuchai Constituency parliamentary seat on a FORD-K Party ticket in 2013. He was re-elected in 2017 and continued to diligently serve the people until his untimely death on 4th December 2020. The parliamentary community knew him as a humble, sociable and hardworking person. Until his death, he actively served as a Member of the Select Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunities and before then he served as a Member of the Select Committee on National Government Constituencies Development Fund and the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives in the 12th Parliament and in Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing in the 11th Parliament. We will all remember the late Hon. Lusweti for his passionate advocacy for the education rights of children and entrenchment of sound fiscal management of public funds allocated to ensure universal access to basic education. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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