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    "id": 1047724,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Let me also add my voice to the loss of a great friend. We worked together with Sen. Yusuf Haji in many situations right from the time of Mzee Moi, the former President of the Republic of Kenya through the time when we had some difficulties in 2007 and 2008, and he became the Minister for Defence. I was the Minster for Education. We had several issues that were bothering him at that stage. It was during his tenure and my tenure in the Ministry of Education that we created a very special relationship and developed a policy on nomadic education which was so critical and important for the people in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) regions. I remember him for that. Secondly, during that period of time, when we were in the Kenya African National union (KANU), we did a lot in terms of free milk distribution to schools and various places. I noted that one of his major interests was peace. We struck a common note; that is equality. He was so much interested in anything that would bring about peace for this nation. When we had very volatile situations developing in the country, we would always compare notes and always moved to the level where it needed then to hear the alternative view on how this issue could be resolved. I can say behind the screens that a lot of issues were resolved that ended up amicably without placing this country into jeopardy. He did a wonderful job as the Provincial Commissioner (PC) of Rift Valley Province. That is not in doubt whatsoever. When he decided to join politics, he did a wonderful job in his ministerial appointments as a Cabinet Minister. We were together for all those years that he was a Cabinet Minister and I was also a Cabinet Minister. I remember his contribution particularly in the security docket, having been an old hand in provincial administration handling the sensitivity of security in Rift Valley and North Eastern. It was easy for him to handle this docket, no wonder President Moi put him in a sensitive docket of the Ministry of Defense and subsequently in the Provincial Administration."
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