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    "id": 256896,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajwang",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 164,
        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "This is because it is something which is fluid; something you cannot hold and say; “now this is called passion”. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when I was a student at the University of Nairobi, there were two very serious political science lecturers. One of them is a Member of this House called Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o and the other one has since left us; he was called Mukaru Ng’ang’a. they were talking about something called the Murang’a peasantry. After Mukaru Ng’ang’a explained - because he came from Murang’a - what the Murang’a peasantry is, Anyang’-Nyong’o who was then responding said: “Now, you do not see a fisherman standing at the lake and you see he is happy and you think that he is happy because the boat which is coming in is carrying fish. He might as well be very happy because the sun is rising. So, Mr. Mukaru Ng’ang’a, can you arrest the Murang’a peasantry and bring it here and say; now, this is the Murang’a peasantry?” I want to ask the Committee to arrest this thing called passion and bring it here and say; now, this is passion. There was a Committee that was, first of all, appointed in also a very laborious way. That committee worked diligently through many applications. If there was something called passion, I am sure that Committee would have dealt with it. This is because they were also looking for somebody, probably, with that passion. But after checking through all those applications they came up with---"
}