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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musyoka",
    "speaker_title": "The Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, in accordance with the provisions of Standing Order No.22, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, this House do now adjourn until tomorrow in the afternoon when we come to listen to the Budget Speech. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Motion is enforced by the sobering reality that faces our country today following the untimely death of two of our colleagues in the plane tragedy to which you have already referred in your Communication from the Chair. Although I had occasion to send my message of condolences, I thought that this morning all of us could stand in solidarity with the families of our departed colleagues as well as their constituents in Bomet and Sotik constituencies. Mr. Speaker, Sir, indeed, in my own mind, it is very difficult for the House to continue with its usual exuberance debating matters that are before this House today given the sad reality that faces this nation. Therefore, once again, I want to send my heartfelt condolences on behalf of the Ministry which has lost a brilliant Assistant Minister. The hon. Lorna Laboso was a source of inspiration to all of us in the Ministry. As I said, only recently she was able to go down to South Africa to represent me at an international conference dealing with prison services and performed so brilliantly on behalf of this country. She was yet to present her findings to me because we were faced with the prison crisis. She and I visited Thika Prison and she gave that approach of a caring Kenyan mother even as we faced with the hard reality of the state of our prisons. She was cheerful, dedicated and clearly with a great potential. Therefore, the cruel hand of death has robbed us, as a nation, of the services of one who we clearly needed at the prime of her youth and a lot was expected of her. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I had occasion to refer to my brother and colleague, hon. Kipkalya Kones. I now know that both hon. Kones and I, attempted to come to this august House in 1983. But both of us, did not succeed. That I succeeded slightly ahead of him in 1985 and he joined in 1988, is a fact that I have now realised after listening to your eulogy in a form of communication from the Chair. Hon. Kones was a fearless and trusted Kenyan leader who always stood firmly when it came to issues that affected his constituents and this nation. No wonder the people of Bomet and the larger Kericho districts looked at him as the leader. Whenever we went to Kapkatet this fact was always clearly elaborated by the people themselves. So, I can imagine the state of shock, not just in the greater Kericho, but in the whole country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in honour of these departed colleagues, I want to appeal to all of us this morning to consider suspending the business of this House until tomorrow. If it was not for the fact that tomorrow is Budget Day, I would even have suggested that we really adjourn for three consecutive days in order to mourn with the families and constituents of our colleagues. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Prime Minister has kindly agreed to second this Motion. I beg to move."
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