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    "id": 1152683,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1152683/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
    "speaker": {
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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 to send my heartfelt condolences on my own behalf, on behalf of my family and the 6.5 millions of Kenyans with disabilities that I represent in this House, to the family of the late Hon. Kibaki, the people of Othaya and to the people of Kenya in general. Our paths crossed incidentally with the late Kibaki when I was the president of the Student Organisation of the Nairobi University (SONU). At that time, the Moi regime had introduced the parallel degree programme, a programme that I was against. Hon. Kibaki was the Leader of the Official Opposition and he was against the Moi regime, and, therefore, we had one common enemy. In the spirit of an enemy of your enemy is your friend, we were friends by default. Our paths crossed again in 2002, when the late Kibaki, was sworn in as the third President of Kenya on a wheelchair. We were both persons with disabilities. A few months into his leadership he said, “W api yule mlemavu alifukuzwa university? Rudisha yeye na wenzake. ” That is how some of us who were suspended from the University of Nairobi and other public universities got our amnesty from. I remember him as a hero. Without him, I would not have completed my university education. As Mzee lies outside here, Hon. Speaker, the man who used the bridge of the post-election violence victims and dead bodies to grab half of his Government in the arrangement of the nusu"
}