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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musila",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Defence",
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        "legal_name": "David Musila",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to join my colleagues and, indeed, Kenyans in paying tribute to the two nationalists in the person of Prof. George Saitoti and hon. Ojode and, of course, not forgetting the other gallant four Kenyans who died along with those two. Mr. Speaker, Sir, both the two departed Members of Parliament were nationalists. Those were gentlemen manning a very important docket of security in this Republic. They carried out their work diligently and everyone felt that the docket was very well looked after. In the case of Prof. George Saitoti, he took his duty very seriously. Above all, Prof. Saitoti was a great Kenyan. He refused to be identified with any ethnic group in this Republic. You are aware that Prof. George Saitoti even represented Kajiado North Constituency, which is inhabited generally by people who are not considered to be of his ethnic background. But he continued to remind Kenyans that he was not of any ethnic group, and that he was a Kenyan. I wish all of us could be like Prof. Saitoti in that regard. Mr. Speaker, Sir, hon. Ojode took his work very seriously. I was amazed – even in the last Parliament - by the manner in which Hon. Ojode took his work. In this Parliament, Hon. Ojode even gave himself the role of whipping us in the Front Bench. I remember many times when you called a Question and the Minister was missing, Hon. Ojode will say: “Give me a few minutes. I will go and get that Minister.” Incredible man! Many things can be said. A lot have been said. We will ever continue to remain grateful and indebted to those gentlemen. On behalf of myself, the people of Mwingi South, the people of Kitui County, I pass my condolences to the six bereaved families."
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