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    "id": 1516830,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1516830/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Saku, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Raso",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I join Kenyans, Hon. Haika, and many others in sending my tribute and condolences for the demise of a distinguished Kenyan. He was a legend and a man who will live through the history of broadcasting and media. Leonard Mambo Mbotela was a household name. The media has walked a journey, looking at it today. Many journalists lived in abject poverty, and many did not know about their lives and dwellings. However, they contributed to the Kenya we have today in terms of patriotism and loyalty. They placed Kenya on the world map. Whenever Leonard Mambo Mbotela was reading the news on VoK, it meant something serious was coming up. That is why, on 1st August 1982, the coup plotters used him to broadcast to Kenyans that there was a coup. For that reason, the demise of people like Mambo Mbotela tells us something about our country. Has something been written about this man? Is there an archive that young Kenyans, like those sitting in the Public Gallery, can refer to, to remember such a man when they grow up? He was an icon because many young people in the media industry were under his tutelage and transitioned to what they are today. We pray that his soul rests in eternal peace and that the Almighty God gives solace to his family. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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