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    "id": 1050470,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "I met Hon. Wakapee in 2017 during the campaign period. We went out as a group during campaigns. When campaigning within the neighbourhood of Juja and Gatundu, he would come say hi to me. Off course, he knew me but I had not met him. We started talking like we had known one another until at some point I was telling him: “We are campaigning in your area”. Even as we were looking and saying: “Yes, we want to go to campaign in Juja Farm but, if we go there, we might miss this.” He was quick to say: “Leave Juja Farm to me! Let us go and campaign in Hon. Wanjiku Kibe’s Constituency.” It is because the former MP, Hon. Clement Waibara, was giving her hell. He was willing to give up his own campaign team not to go to his place, but to go to the other one and yet, you could see he was still frail. In my imagination, this is the person all of us needed to get there. His people loved him and, as you can see, they elected him. He made friends with everyone. He never shied to say what the issue was. Most people tend to hide things and then suffer in silence. By opening up, he was able to live with the condition and to internalize it. That, perhaps, is what we all need to do so that the pain is lessened. As we go through it, I believe Members of Parliament, in the usual way, we will be generous. Between the Leader of the Minority Party and me, we will be communicating to the Clerk so that arrangements can be made on how we can support our colleague in the usual standard way. At least, it is easier to channel everything as one cheque rather than to keep telling everyone to send to a committee; some to Airtel, some to MPesa, some to a Paybill and so on. We will do it in an organized way. I thank you, Hon. Members, for that decision that was made earlier, and I thank my predecessor for enforcing it. We will be doing that within ourselves. We will facilitate that so that we have a check-off system that will contribute to that. It is something that has touched us. It is a sad thing because immediately we lost Hon. Oyioka…"
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