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    "id": 1356268,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "she specialized in training of teachers. She then returned to Kenya, worked briefly with the Ministry of Education before being sent for further training to replace the expatriate secretaries working in the civil service of the Colonial Government. She grew in stature and went on to work for the Central Organisation of Trade Union (COTU). Thereafter, she joined the Mild Coffee Trading Association (MCTA) as the Company Secretary where she built the current Coffee House (KPCU Clean Coffee Warehouse). Together with Mrs. Jane Kiano they approached President Jomo Kenyatta to begin Maendeleo ya Wanawake where Jane Kiano was the chair and Kukhu Teresa was the Vice Chair. President Kenyatta was so impressed and with the support of his Minister, Dr. Gikonyo Kiano, gave them a plot in the City Centre here and Kshs15 million. Kukhu Teresa and Mrs. Gikonyo Kiano used this Kshs15 million to build the current Maendeleo ya Wanawake House in Nairobi to completion. Subsequently, after Maendeleo ya Wanawake had grown, attempts were made to grab Maendeleo ya Wanawake building, by parties whose names I will not mention, for the purpose of respect and confidentiality. However, since kukhu Teresa Makhulu was a signatory for mandatory purposes, the transfer of the property could not succeed. She refused and saved Maendeleo ya Wanawake House. To her credit and deservedly so, Maendeleo ya Wanawake to date maintains her as a trustee even at her advanced age of 96 years. Talking to her last week, she told me that she does not mind being airlifted from Kakamega to Nairobi as sometimes they do, to attend business as a trustee. In 1974, Kukhu Teresa did the unthinkable. She dared to become the MP for the greater Ikolomani. She is the only woman to ever run as an MP in our community to date. She is fondly referred to in our community as Mama Shimuka for this fete. In that election, needless to say, she came a distant 2nd runner-up to Clement Kalani Lubembe and Seth Lugonzo Mwinamo. Today, she lives happily in her home at Shanjelo village in Shinyalu Constituency as a farmer on their eight-acre family land. It is regrettable that she is currently battling attempts by shadowy people to dispossess her of their only investment, which is the 125 acres of agricultural land at Kipkaren in Turbo Constituency next to Malava Constituency in Kakamega County. We are appealing to the Maendeleo ya Wanawake fraternity and the County Government of Nairobi City, the Republic of Kenya and the President of Kenya to rename Maendeleo ya Wanawake House in Nairobi to Teresa Shitakha House. May our good God continue blessing her with many more years. I invite Members who would want to talk to this extra ordinary woman. I promise to bring her to the House when she would be ready to travel, so that she can sit in this House where she wanted to sit in 1974, but she was unable to beat men. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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