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    "id": 292247,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Murungi",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Energy",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to pass my very sincere condolences to the families, relatives and friends of our two colleagues, hon. Joshua Orwa Ojode and hon. Prof. George Saitoti. In view of the shortage of time, let me mention that it will be very difficult for us to replace hon. Ojode in this House. He has been a very effective representative of the Coalition Government, and he was handling a very difficult docket - the police. We are going to greately miss him as a House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, regarding Prof. Saitoti, I had occasion to work with him in various capacities as his Secretary-General in PNU and I also spent a lot of time negotiating a protocol between him, hon. Kenyatta and Kalonzo Musyoka regarding how we could sort out on which of them would run as the presidential candidate on our party ticket. However, one thing which touched me about Prof. Saitoti is his humilty. It brought alive the fact that he did want to aspire to high office in this country through the history that he recounted to me. One must be prepared to take great risks of personal humiliation and take great risk of even being made to look foolish for the sake of this country. I remember we went to Uwaso Kedong with Prof. Saitoti when there was the Mad Cow disease. We were served with a lot of meat there and I was wondeirng whether we should eat the meat. The people were very happy; they started eating the meat. I looked at Prof. Saitoti; he took his knife and started eating the meat. So, I said that this man who was the very first African to get a Phd degree from Warwick University is eating this meat, who is Kiraitu Murungi not to eat it? So, we ate it. Later on when they asked about the Mad Cow disease tukasema hapo Umasaini hakuna hayo mambo. He was a man who related with the villagers at that level. We will miss Prof. Saitoti for his great humility, and let us not forget that lesson in humility."
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