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    "id": 1153023,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for also giving me an opportunity to condole with the family of His Excellency the late President, Emilio Mwai Kibaki. First, on my own behalf, my family’s behalf and on behalf of the people of Nyamira County, I wish to pass my condolences to the family of the late President Mwai Kibaki and his family and the entire people of Nyeri County and Kenya in general. I do not belong to the class of the people like my friend, Sen. Wako, and the Senate Majority Leader, who were privileged to serve in the Cabinet with the late President. However, I was among millions of Kenyans who received his presidency, in December, 2002, with a lot of excitement and expectation. William Shakespeare once said that some people are just born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. From what I have read about the history of the late President Kibaki, it seems he was born into a very humble background. He was not born into greatness. However, he seems to have had a great and brilliant mind. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you follow his history in Mang’u High School, his academic excellence in Makerere University and in the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), you will appreciate that he was born with a very brilliant mind. Some of us who went to the Advanced (A) Level School, only knew one Kenyan who had scored six points in Ordinary (O) Level. I do not know whether that was very true, but that is what we used to hear in school. We also used to hear the stories of a Kenyan, who in his A Levels, scored three straight A’s and had his name inscripted on the board of Mang’u High School. Those of us who were trying to be ambitious wanted to emulate the late President Kibaki. We wanted to achieve that academic excellence and leave a mark in the schools we attended. That is why if you go to our schools, you will find that we worked so hard to have our names put as the top student for a particular year. For my case, in 1989, in Kibianga High School, my name is on the board, thanks to this man lying in State, the late President Kibaki. He was an inspiration to many of us."
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