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    "id": 1152699,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1152699/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. On my behalf, the people of Garissa Township and Northern Kenya, I send my condolences to the family, friends and the people of Othaya who have lost a great leader. If you allow me, let me quote a verse from Surah Al ‘Imran in the Quran which says: “Every soul will taste death, and you will only be given your full compensation on the Day of Resurrection. So he who is drawn away from the Fire and admitted to Paradise has attained his desire. And what is the life of this world except the enjoyment of delusion?” I had the privilege to serve with President Kibaki in the 10th Parliament. I thank you because you are the party leader of the great party that President Kibaki established many years ago. You are the only one who is keeping his legacy. The rest are praising Kibaki while I had a very rare privilege to serve with him in the 10th Parliament when Presidents were Members of Parliament (MPs) and President Kibaki was the MP for Othaya. I had a very rare privilege to be very close to Kibaki when I differed with my Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) in 2010. I, and many others, including the current Deputy President, were adopted by President Kibaki as his political sons and we survived until 2013. Kibaki will be remembered as one who was not a petty leader as some people are today. Kibaki will be remembered as a person who did not betray. He did not believe in the politics of deceit and betrayal as it is today in Kenya. Kibaki believed in the economy, the hustler and the smallest of the smallest people. It was Kibaki who asked the banking sector in our country to open up loans to the smallest of businesses in our country. It is Kibaki who brought this country up. During his tenure and when he took over, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) was collecting Kshs600 billion. By 2013, the KRA was collecting Kshs1.2 trillion. He believed in local revenue. He never believed in debt. Kibaki left us with a debt of Kshs1.8 trillion. Today, our country is going the route of Sri Lanka and Greece where we are at a debt of Kshs13.5 trillion. When Kibaki was leaving us, a loaf of bread was Kshs20. Today Kenyans are buying a loaf of bread at Kshs55. Kenyans are queueing everywhere. I urge my Christian brothers and sisters, please, do not cheat when you want to mourn the dead. Do not shed crocodile tears. We know those who made Kibaki’s life difficult in the 10th Parliament and in the Grand Coalition Government. I was a minister. Hon. Charles Kilonzo and Hon. Kimunya are the only two Members I can see who were with us in the 10th Parliament. We know how the Grand Coalition Government was run. Kibaki had the best of the best of advisors— men like Ambassador Muthaura and people like Kimemia. I do not know what has happened to Kimemia of late. It was unlike today when you have sycophants and a cartel that wants to steal from the people. The next leader of the Republic of Kenya must be like Kibaki. The person closest to Kibaki is none other than Hon. William Samoei arap Ruto. That is the man who is closest to Kibaki. The rest worked with Kibaki. William Ruto will be like Kibaki. I have worked with him. He will turn our economy. But please, my Christian brothers, do not praise Kibaki if you know you made his life difficult during his time. May his soul rest in peace."
}