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    "id": 1153071,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lusaka",
    "speaker_title": "The Speaker",
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    "content": "In 1958, he returned to Makerere University where he served as an Assistant Lecturer in the Economics Department. In 1961, he resigned to take up the position of Executive Officer of the Kenya African National Union (KANU). In 1961, the late Mwai Kibaki married the First Lady, Her Excellency, the late Lucy Muthoni Kibaki, the daughter of a church minister, who was then a secondary school headteacher. He is survived by their four children: Judy Wanjiku, Jimmy Kibaki, David Kagai and Tony Githinji. Hon. Senators, His Excellency the late Mwai Kibaki enjoyed a rich career in the public service. In 1963, when Kenya won its Independence, he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Donholm Constituency in Nairobi, subsequently called Bahati and now Makadara, where he served for two terms. In the 1974 General Elections, he moved his political base to his native Othaya Constituency in Nyeri which he represented uninterrupted until his retirement in 2013. He will be remembered in the annals of history as the longest serving Member of Parliament having served 10 consecutive parliamentary terms, thus totaling to 50 years in service. During this period, His Excellency the late Mwai Kibaki served the Government in various positions, including the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance between 1963 and 1965; Minister for Commerce and Industry between 1965 and 1969; Minister for Finance and Economic Planning between 1970 and 1978; and the Fourth Vice President of the Republic of Kenya between 1978 and 1988. As Vice President, he continued to serve as the Minister for Finance up to 1983 and later as the Minister for Home Affairs and National Heritage between 1983 and 1988. After the 1988 General Elections, he was appointed Minister for Health until 1991 when he resigned from the ministerial position and from the then ruling party KANU. Following the reintroduction of multiparty politics in 1991, he founded the Democratic Party (DP) and contested the 1992 presidential election coming third. On his second attempt at the presidency in 1997, he came second and became the Official Leader of the Opposition and the Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). In the General Elections of December 2002, he contested for president under the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) ticket and was elected President on the Grand Coalition ticket at the age of 71. In the 2007 General Elections, he won a second term as President under the Party of National Unity (PNU). Hon. Senators, in his lifetime, His Excellency the late Mwai Kibaki made innumerable achievements that transcend beyond the current generation and even beyond our borders. He led Kenya in a tumultuous period and oversaw the passage of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, that introduced the devolved system of governance, expanded democratic space and ensured there were more checks and balances on the institutions of governance."
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