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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "something he said, I cannot remember it off head but it is a very nice picture on the 6th or 2nd floor of Harambee House about what Kibaki thought about corruption and service to the people. It nearly appears as a contradiction that it appears in that place because a lot of the bad things that have happened to this country, some of them happened in that building. I remember this President after he left office as a gentle man who I saw every other Sunday at the Consolata Shrine where we used to go every Sunday. I am not quite sure whether somebody is going to write a book about this man, I am not sure whether we are going to produce a man like this but many things need to be written about the late Mwai Kibaki. I remember vividly the story about the Constitution told by my late father. He said that if it was not for Mwai Kibaki remaining firm, many people in his Government did not want a new Constitution. He just remained very firm. Every time they used to conspire, he sought for my father’s opinion and he would say what the Minister has said he will follow. He followed and listened to advice. I admire this gentleman for his patience and listening. We are quick to judge, we are quick to anger, we are quick to punish our enemies and since I do not aspire to be a president, those who are aspiring to be presidents of this country must borrow a leaf from Mwai Kibaki. He led a Cabinet of 42 Cabinet Ministers from the ODM, Wiper and his own party. All these people; Anyang’-Nyong’o, Orengo, Raila and others were in the same Cabinet. The current Government is having problems with just 20 Cabinet Secretaries. He led a Government and he found a process. He believed in processes. We are going to miss Kibaki. I recall a time when I was asked to speak about Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) and I said: “You are going to miss President Mwai Kibaki and what he did for us to get a new Constitution”. The Constitution that he promulgated in 2010 is untouched so many years later. Why? Because he believed in processes. We got a new Constitution despite opposition to it because this man believed in processes. I am saying, if we want to believe in the legacy of Mwai Kibaki we must follow process. Those who speak about ill-gotten wealth--- Together with my late father, we represented two people, who were said to be very close to President Kibaki. One of them was the Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), who was also his economic advisor. When he was alleged to have committed crime as the CBK governor, he went to him stating he was innocent. The late President Mwai Kibaki told him to go and defend himself in court. True to his word, Governor Mulei was found innocent of the crimes for which Cabinet Ministers in Kibaki’s Government conspired to have him removed from office."
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