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    "id": 1356266,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.52(1) to make a Statement on a matter of national and general topical concern in respect of Kukhu Teresa Makhulo Khamati Shitakha Shimoka. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the people of Western Kenya, Kakamenga County, the people of the greater Ikolomani and on behalf of her greater Shitakha family, and on behalf of all the women of Kenya, I wish to make this Statement in celebration of Kukhu Teresa Makhulo Khamati Shitakha Shimuka. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this extraordinary woman was born in 1927, today aged 96 years old, at Ivunyighu Village in Idakho, South of Ikolomani Constituency, being the daughter of Mzee Khamati of Vanyighu sub-clan of Idakho. She joined the three year pre-primary school conducted by nuns of Eregi Convent. On successful completion of the preparatory, the white priest recruited her to Mukumu Primary School, where she studied for eight years. By this time, she had been adopted by the Catholic Church, who sponsored her to attend Mukumu Teachers Training College. When the Catholic Church grew, it reorganised its institutions, leading to Mukumu Teachers Training College relocating to the current Eregi Teachers Training College and Mukumu Teachers Training College being converted into three institutions, namely, Mukumu Primary School, Mukumu Boys High School, Mukumu Girls High School, St Charles Lwanga High School, St Peter's Seminary and St Elizabeth Mukumu Mission Hospital. We pride in the fact that Kukhu Teresa Makhulo Khamati Shitakha Shimuka was among the three pioneer girls of the Abakakamega Community, others being; Hellen Miheso who later got married to John Khamati, the brother to Shimuka, Rosa Musungu who later got married to Teresa Makhulo’s brother in-law John Manyonje. Kukhu Makhulo started her working life as a P3 teacher, teaching at the primary school she had graduated from. She then was transferred to Shibuye Primary School and thereafter moved to Kericho Township Primary School and eventually to Bondeni D.E.B School in Nakuru. The Colonial Government then saw in her a highly talented young woman and immediately airlifted her to Nottingham University in the United Kingdom (UK) where"
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