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    "id": 1078634,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. On behalf of my family and the people of Kipipiri, I would like to convey my condolences to the family of the late Hon. Jakoyo Midiwo and the people of Gem whom he represented for the 10 years that I served with him here. He continued to serve when I was out. I joined Parliament with him in December 2002 and we got to know one another. In 2007, we got into the Grand Coalition together and I got to work with him far much more. We got to the tail end of that term, with him as a Whip and I as the Deputy Leader of Government Business. We then got conjoined into working together especially as we brought in legislation to actualise the new Constitution. He became a useful ally to me. There is a team he had with Hon. Millie Odhiambo and Hon. Mungatana. There is a young team that used to sit around the corner. They were five of them and they would poke holes in every Bill that we brought. However, using the late Hon. Jakoyo, I was able to get their thinking behind issues so as to eliminate mischief and, at least, identify that the changes being brought to the law are for the better. I was in Party of National Unity (PNU) side and him in ODM, but it was easier for me to work with him than our own Whip then because he was always in the House. We were very weak in terms of representation. He is somebody I got to trust, work with and got things moving in this House. We became great friends. We also appeared together on shows on television and radio. His thinking and commitment was more about Parliament: what we talked about, why we needed people to be educated, and dedication of time to Parliament rather than just thinking of coming to sign up and dash out. He dedicated his time here and people got to like him. We will miss this good leader. It is unfortunate that he passed on at the age of 54, which is quite a tender age, but we leave that to God. We will miss him. He has died at the prime of his life. We will miss what he would have done to the people of Gem and Kenya given his experience. At this point, we can only pray for his family to have the comfort to go through this situation that has befallen them rather suddenly. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}