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    "id": 1152941,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1152941/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bumula, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mwambu Mabongah",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Wekesa Mwambu Mabonga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. On my behalf and the great people of Bumula, I pass my condolences to the family of the late Hon. President Mwai Kibaki and the entire nation. When we mourn such a great man, we pick some lessons that we need to follow, as leaders of this country. There is one thing I realised with the late President; he was serving as President when some of us were in the civil service. Every time we had opportunity to visit him in the evenings, you would realise that he was sitting with men who could guide him on how to run this country. You need good advisors as a leader. The late Hon. President Kibaki had very good advisors. Ambassador Muthaura was always there to sieve the kind of people that would sit with the President until late. Today, we are here to celebrate the great legacy that he has left in this country; a legacy that will be discussed for generations to come. It is because he was the kind of leader who decided to put the country first, and not positions. If you go to the villages today and talk of the devolution that we can enjoy, it is the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) that was championed by the late President. When we talked of raising this country from the wilderness, you will realise that there were people who were learning under trees before Hon. Kibaki became President. Some of the best classrooms in some places in this country were mud-walled classrooms, but through the NG- CDF, you will wonder whether what you see today are primary schools or colleges. They are built by the NG-CDF. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}