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    "id": 263667,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/263667/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to join my colleagues in passing my condolences to the family of hon. John Michuki. I have worked under hon. Michuki as his Assistant Minister. He was a very intelligent man. He was very courageous. He was a man who was extremely thorough in everything that he did. This country is going to miss him. I think I happen to be the last person to have been in an official function with him. We were in a meeting in Durban, South Africa, in December, 2011, preparing for the meeting that is coming in June. At that time, in fact, he did mention to me that he was going to the United Kingdom for an eye clinic – something we knew previously at the Ministry. I want to say pole to the family. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, hon. Michuki has left us at a very interesting time. Hon. Michuki was supposed to be hosting the Governing Council as the host Minister of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). As hon. Members are aware, on Wednesday, our President went to open the UNEP Governing Council, where we had all the world’s Ministers of Environment converging at the UNEP Headquarters. I am sure that they are going to be devastated by news of his passing on. He was not able to read his own statement on that Monday. We really owe hon. Michuki a lot in the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources. He has been the one who has been carrying the banner of UNEP confirmed as a UN organisation that is headquartered in Kenya. It is the only UN organisation that is based in Kenya. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we can never complete describing the work that this man has done. I believe that we will have other opportunities to do so. For now, I just want to say that the man we have lost is a man who has done a lot for this country. Switching Ministries for hon. Michuki did not matter, because whenever he moved to a new Ministry, he learned very fast and he was very thorough. May God rest his soul in eternal peace."
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