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    "id": 1084264,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity also to congratulate the Member for Kamukunji for bringing such a very important Petition. Professor Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. She won that Nobel Peace Prize through tears mixed with blood. I remember when I was at the University of Nairobi, she singlehandedly rescued and saved Karura Forest. We were students at the University of Nairobi by then. We were with her. Some of our students were even killed when we were saving Karura Forest. She was the first Kenyan woman to become a professor. You know professors never retire and when they retire, professors do not tire and if they tire, professors do not die and if they die, they do not rot and if they rot, they will not smell and if they smell, they will smell of rose flowers. We really need to honour some of those heroes. It is high time that we honoured her not only by renaming Karura Forest as Professor Wangari Maathai Karura Forest, but even a national school or one of the stadiums that we are building so that the whole world can remember her. This is because there is literally very little that we can do in a forest. It will only be accessible to Kenyans. However, if we have an international stadium where we can have Olympics and international football game, the whole world will see that we have honoured a professor who was a great environmentalist. It is only today that I have changed my colours. I normally wear green. Why? It is a sign of conservation that we need to conserve our forests and make our country green. I support. I normally put on green. It is only today that I changed to yellow. Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for giving me that opportunity. You are a presidential candidate. I know most Members will be in your camp, Hon. Speaker. Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker and muthuri wa muthigi."
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