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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have, perhaps, spent the shortest term in this House and I knew the two hon. Members the least. I came to know Prof. Saitoti just before I was elected through a by-election. Although when I was out, we were on the different sides of the political divide. When he was the Vice-President, I was one of the exiled members who were opposed to the Kenyan regime and we were campaigning for a democratic change in our country. However, when we compared notes, I was impressed by the fact that in his early days at Sussex and at Warwick, he was an activist who had fought for changes in other parts of the world. Particularly, he was a member of the Anti-Apartheid Committee with Thabo Mbeki, the former President of South Africa who was then a student there, as well as Essop Pahad who was another leading activist in the struggle for change in South Africa. At Warwick, he was a very close friend of Valerie Amos who later became the first female black Cabinet Minister in the British Government and who contributed a lot to realizing free primary education in our country as a result of the relationship she had with Prof. Saitoti. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I must say that in the last days, particularly in the last speech he gave regarding the changes that we need to make, I feel that he had expressed strong commitment for radical reforms in our police and our security system. I believe that he was committed to those changes that he had advocated for. Therefore, I wish him well."
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