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    "id": 1346051,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "All of us in our family, from his brothers to us, his children, nephews and nieces, he took us to school; he had a path in our education. Nobody who carries that name can say that they did not pass through the hands of Lawrence Sifuna. He liked good things. He is the one who introduced me to whiskey. For some reason, he believed that a certain brand of whiskey called Bond 7 was the best in the world; I do not know why. He used to drink it with hot water and lime. For many years, that is how I drunk my whiskey because he could make you believe that this is the best whiskey in the world, just from describing it. While attending some of his speeches on the podium, it is just that those days we did not have the sort of filming equipment and television cameras like we do now, but Uncle Lawrence would move a crowd. We, as politicians, know. When you are speaking, you can tell when you have captured the imagination of the people. We would leave those rallies convinced that he was going to win the election. In 1988 I was only six years old. I was living in Kitinda Village where my grandmother’s house was. The reason I remember knowing that Lawrence had lost the election in 1988, is his people came back wailing. It was as if somebody had died. I remember my grandmother crying saying they have lost the election. The reason Uncle Lawrence was rigged out in 1988 is because although he was elected in 1979 on a Kenya African National Union (KANU) ticket, he used to speak truth to power. When things were not as right as they should be, he used to stand up the way Sen. Wamatinga has done today, and say it was something he would not support. I thank all of you for the kind words that you have sent. In fact, one of the other things he used to tell us is that cleanliness is next to Godliness. He insisted on cleanliness of body and mind. The way I am looking right now, I could not go and see Uncle Lawrence. You have to pass by a barber. Of course, Sen. Olekina would be kicked out at the gate."
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