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    "id": 1049804,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1049804/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lusaka",
    "speaker_title": "The Speaker",
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    "content": " Hon. Members, I have a Communication on the demise of Hon. Francis Munyua Waititu, MP. It is with deep sorrow that I wish to inform you of the untimely demise of Hon. Francis Munyua Waititu, MP, Member for Juja Constituency, Kiambu County, who passed on yesterday, Monday 22nd February, 2021 while undergoing treatment at the M.P. Shah Hospital, Nairobi. Hon. Senators, the late Hon. Francis Munyua Waititu, MP was born on 5th October, 1958 in Gigiri, Kiambu. He attended Karura Forest Primary School where he took his Certificate of Primary Education (CPE), before proceeding to Sharda High School for his East Africa Certificate of Education (EACE). He thereafter obtained Certificates and Diploma in Agriculture from the Coffee Research Institute (CRI), Finaff Coffee Consultants, the Kenya Planters Co-operatives Union (KPCU) and Bouchard International Services. Hon. Senators, the late Hon. Francis Munyua Waititu, MP, popularly known as „ Wakapee ‟, had a passion for agriculture and real estate, whereby he had an illustrious career working at Magumu Nyakinyua Coffee Estate in Kiambu, Iganjo Farm in Juja, Kirathe Mang‟u Coffee Estate, Surrey Coffee Farm, Muiri Coffee Estate in Thika, Ngungugu Farm in Gatundu, Sunflower Farm in Machakos and Saramwai Estate in Nyeri, where he served as Group General Manager. Hon. Senators, Hon. Francis Munyua Waititu entered politics in 2013 when he was elected as MP for Juja Constituency and re-elected to the same position in 2017. In the second term of his political career, he was however constantly in and out of the country for cancer treatment. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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