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    "id": 1153033,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1153033/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to eulogize a great Statesman, great son of Kenya and a brilliant mind. I think that if he had taken sciences, he would have been called a genius. He was very eloquent and yet very humble; a man of humility. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I came to hear of President Mwai Kibaki when I heard that he was the first African to get a First Class Honors Degree in Economics. At that time, he was lecturing at Makerere University. I said that this is the type of man that I would like to know very closely. Fortunately, during the holidays, when I was in Alliance High School, I took one of my holidays here in Nairobi and that was the time of the elections in Kenya. I think it was around 1962 or 1963. In Nairobi, the key people who were campaigning for KANU were Tom Mboya, the Secretary-General and Mwai Kibaki, the Executive Officer. My classmates and I, who were in Nairobi, made it a point to attend all the campaign meetings, which were being addressed by these two brilliant sons of Kenya. You can imagine how much we were impressed and followed them. At least, we"
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