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    "id": 1153252,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I rise to eulogize our third President, the late President Emilio Mwai Kibaki. As we grieve for our third President, we should honour his memory and celebrate his life, which is rich in family, and more importantly, rich in achievements. His towering achievements have been spoken about by everybody here in this House. However, for some of us who come from Northern Kenya, if we were to list some of the things that the third President achieved, we would be so proud as to say that he linked us to Kenya properly. There was a time that beyond Isiolo County, which is my county, you could not go to Marsabit County because there were no roads at all. During the late Kibaki’s tenure as the third President of the Republic of Kenya, he connected the great North to what we had previously called ourselves ‘not Kenyans proper.’ We honour his life, legacy of towering achievements that has been said by all colleagues, from free primary education, expanded higher education, to great infrastructural developments that today our economy runs on, to a lot of other things that he did in this country. We celebrate his life. As I said, it is a life that boasts of towering achievements. Madam Deputy Speaker, the grief over the loss of any person is felt most by the family, but a country constitutes a larger extended family too. We, as Kenyans, grieve for the loss of our third President. However, we are more in celebration because of the kind of leadership he showed us. A leadership that lived within its means and that is why everybody that stood up today spoke of him having borrowed and used it wisely. He believed that every citizen, including himself, must live within their means and that showed very clearly in his legacy as the President that had the least debt so to speak. At the same time, the towering achievements that he achieved were the then investments that were made very prudently, cautiously and with priority and focus to strategic direction. Our late President had a distinguished career - as had been mentioned - of 50 years from 1963 to 2013. Leadership is given by God. As it is said in the Quran and the Bible, he is an anointed one in the sense that you cannot have somebody lead for so many years. It is not to say that he has not had challenges and shortcomings, but he has led and had the privilege of serving this country in very many capacities, in all of which he excelled."
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