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    "id": 1152864,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1152864/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, thank you very much. Let me join my colleagues in passing my condolences and those of the people of Ugunja to the family and friends of the late third President Mwai Kibaki and, indeed, to the people of Kenya. The more I hear my colleagues speak with passion, the more I am reminded of the celebrated speech by Mark Antony in Julius Caesar. Those of us who are fans of Shakespeare will tell you that the more things change, the more they remain the same. Let me say two things. The late Hon. President Mwai Kibaki was a man of his own class. I can for sure remember him for two things, if only two things. One, as you know, he was among the very few of his generation—the generation of post-independence Kenyan leaders who were known for nothing else but nationalism. Mwai Kibaki lived the spirit of nationalism till he died. Mwai Kibaki was known as a unifying figure. He was known as a person who was non-polarising, a virtue that we really need in this country. Mwai Kibaki was the kind of statesman that you would need at any given moment in the life of a country. Secondly, it is the legacy that Hon. Mwai Kibaki has left behind. You know many a times leaders strive to leave a positive legacy. What I have come to learn is that once you are a good leader like Mwai Kibaki was, you do not have to strive to leave a legacy. It just happens naturally."
}