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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "time. It was eventually decided that it was Sen. Haji who would be the right person to be a peacemaker. In the Rift Valley, I think he was placed there by the late President Moi because of that reason; that he was a peacemaker. The expanse of that province from Ethiopia, Sudan going to Tanzania was not an easy place to administer justice and be the chief representative of the Central Government. We know what Sen. Haji did. The Senate Majority Leader told me of an instance concerning him as a person in respect of elections, where he was rigged out and Sen. Haji stood out for him before the late President Moi. He gave us another example in Kilgoris and Trans Nzoia. Come the fight for multipartyism and there were clashes in Marsabit and other areas in northern Kenya, the former President Kibaki chose him and the former Speaker, Hon. ole Kaparo, to try and resolve the issues that were going on in the northern part of the Eastern Province. In the East African region, in the relations where we have not quite achieved peace as yet, between Kenya and Somalia--- We know our operations in Somalia, which is in the context of peacemaking, he played a very big role. I think he was the only person who has been a Minister for Defence, an acting Minister of the Interior and an acting Minister for Foreign affairs. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in that responsibility, I accompanied the late Sen. Haji to Ethiopia when he was the Acting Minister in the Ministry of Defence and Foreign Affairs. We were there with the then Vice President, the late hon. (Prof.) George Saitoti. When we met our counterparts in Ethiopia, the late Sen. Haji occupied the whole room with his presentation. His presence could be felt in the whole room; he put the legalism that some of us tried to bring in direct words. He stated that it was either peace or no peace, stating that peace required peacemakers and both Governments must be dedicated towards creating peace between Ethiopia and Kenya. At that time, there was a big problem at the Kenyan-Ethiopian border in Moyale. The late Sen. Haji has been felt everywhere in this Republic. As the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations of the Senate, his job speaks for itself; I need not say anything more. He served as the Chairperson of that Committee in the previous and current Senate. I was a Member of the Standing Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations of the Senate at the inauguration of the 11th Parliament. Contestation was at its highest when we went for the election of the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of Committees. People were fighting in all the Committees for the leadership positions. However, when it came to this critical Committee, where Sen. Wetangula, Sen. Ongoro and I were the Members from the Opposition, we decided that none of us was going to put their name against the late Sen. Haji."
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