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    "id": 1048055,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyaribari Chache, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Tong’i",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": " Let me use this one, Hon. Speaker. Hon. Speaker, thank you for the opportunity to also contribute and share my pain with the families who have lost their loved ones, Hon. Yusuf Haji, and my colleague and friend, Oroo Oyioka, the Member for Bonchari. We have lost very key people in this country in short succession. Particularly in Kisii, in less than two months, we have lost a governor, a Member of Parliament and a small-scale farmer, my father, Mzee Tong’i Nyangate. It is so painful that I can only imagine what the families are going through. It is a moment for all of us to reflect and find out what it is that we have done so that we reconcile with God and not go through this pain. It is quite painful to lose leaders of this magnitude, founders of this country who had contributed immensely to the well-being of the country. As a young man, I used to read about Hon. Yusuf Haji in the papers. He is a man that I looked up to and admired. I have had a few opportunities to share with him and I believe he was a great person. I remember he once told me that as young people, our biggest mistake was that we believe in papers and degrees. Leadership is never about degrees or the papers we have today. Leadership is about being humble, listening to the needs of the people and doing what the people want. Hon. Yusuf Haji, just like Hon. Oroo Oyioka, believed in and practised such. Leadership is about modelling the best behavior. Hon. Nyachae is also that type of a person. They are people who did not go to formal school…"
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