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    "id": 1102177,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to continue to offer my condolences, those of my family and the people of West Pokot and the condolences of this side of the House following the demise of our beloved young Senator, Sen. Victor Prengei. Being on the same side with Prengei did not matter because he was friendly to both sides of the House and he made it easy for Members of this House to become friends with him. He was amiable as it has been mentioned, a smiling young man who did not have any problems with anyone in this House. Many things have been spoken about him. We gave him a very good send-off. Some of us had an opportunity to say a few words at the requiem mass. I also went to his home and the burial site and I also had a moment there to speak on behalf of our side of the House and the House, to give our condolences and to mourn with the family. I am particularly concerned about the Ogiek people and the marginalized communities that he represented in this House. I am very concerned because they have no opportunity at all of being elected if they stood for elections and so the only way is for them to be nominated. I want to join my colleagues who have spoken ahead of me who insist that we should get another person from the minority groups to represent, particularly from that Ogiek community if possible. I want to say something that I have spoken about before; it is in public domain that sometimes in the burial of our colleagues politics exceed the limits that should really be allowed when we are giving a great send-off to our people. In this particular case, I raised the issue and one faction of the political divide decided to run with it and keep everybody else out. They turned the whole place into a place where insults and very unkind words were used against the other side. I thought that was not fair because we all supported the effort to give our colleague a good send-off. I was there and I saw that it was not tenable to continue being in that particular burial spot because it had turned into a political rally, pitting one side of this House against another and so on."
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