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    "id": 1174413,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I join you, the House and the entire nation in relaying our condolences to the Kamoti family and the people of Kilifi for the tragic loss of their legislator. The late Kamoti was personally known to me. We never met in the usual places that politicians meet. We did not meet in Television (TV) talk shows; we did not meet in political rallies; we did not even meet in demos. I never came across Kamoti throwing harsh words at the opposition. I never came across him shouting, canvassing and picketing the way politicians typically do. I met Kamoti under interesting circumstances. The Parliament has a gym and Kamoti was an avid user of the parliamentary gym. In fact, he was fairly introverted in his physical exercise. When he went to the gym he would rarely talk to anybody. He would go on with his business for an hour or two. Madam Deputy Speaker, Hon. Kamoti was in a small league of extraordinary gentlemen in this Parliament. He could bench press his weight. He was among the few people who could sit on the bench press and do a weight of 75Kgs. Very few Members of Parliament are capable of doing that. The only other person who can do that is Hon. Dan Wanyama. In the last Parliament, it was Hon. Paul Otwoma. In this Parliament it was yours truly and the late Kamoti who had the record of the heaviest bench press in that gym. Therefore, I knew him at a very personal level. He was extremely humble. He was a very amiable person. If you scratched beneath that veneer of introversion, you would"
}