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    "id": 1153257,
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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": "When that comes from northern Kenya, talk of the great north or the big bold north. It is a dream for most of us who would like to go into leadership to achieve that dream. We will be walking on the great road that his Excellency President Kibaki made. For those and many other things that he has made, he quietly achieved them. You would never hear him chest-thumping. I have heard people saying that the Jubilee Government has brought very bad things; they have done so many things and borrowed too much. In my mind, the Jubilee Government is Uhuru-Ruto. We campaigned for Uhuru- Ruto; it is not just President Uhuru alone. If there is any responsibility to be taken, the two should do it and nobody should apportion blame and take credit at the same time. That cannot be. Today, we eulogize our third President, who has achieved quite a lot. He has in the last 50 years of service to humanity and his country had the privilege of public service, and he did justice to it. Today’s public service is a shadow of what it should be. Public service that is supposed to be compassionate, capable and put in place the capable people is nothing close to that. We are relying on other measures of public service. He embodied the public service that is a privilege to serve in, and one that should be delivered with compassion. That should be given to capable people to achieve great things; believes in action and achieves results for the most vulnerable in this society. He was one of the people that achieved the Millennium Development Goal (MDGs) for universal access to education, and this is at the primary level. We celebrate our President and this country for producing such an outstanding leader. Right now, we are experiencing the failure of the nerve of leadership and the crisis of leadership. I hope that his death and his legacy that has been revived will remind us as we aspire to leadership that we should emulate him and walk in his giant footsteps. Many of my colleagues were saying that they do not aspire to be President and, therefore, are asking other people who are aspiring to be President. I cannot rule out my aspiration to be President because I am following in the footsteps of such giants. What should stop us from aspiring if we have that canvas and rubric that has been provided to us by our forefathers, President Jomo Kenyatta, Daniel arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki? All have shown us what public service and selfless service should look like. I will not belabor and repeat all the good things that have been said. On behalf of all the people of Isiolo, my own family and the people of the great North, where I come from, and whose voice we, in Parliament are, I say pole sana to the family of our third President. We look forward, as the people of Kenya, because his death is coming at a very opportune time for us to make sure that we emulate him. As we aspire to greater office, let us walk in his footsteps and serve this country with diligence, compassion, all the capabilities that we have, but more importantly, with love. Rest in peace our third President and may God continue to bless this country."
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