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    "content": "eminent lawyer; a very able Member of Parliament, able Minister and a Member of this Senate. I would like to take this opportunity to tell the children of the late Mutula that there is one girl in Kakamega who was employed by their father as a teacher. This girl - for purposes of confidentially, I will not give her name, but I will give the name of the father who is called Peter Okondo – has qualified as a primary school teacher and because she comes from a very desperately poor family, agents of corruption in Kakamega had denied her employment for five straight years. Mutula looked for her when she sent me to his office, he saw her and employed her on the spot. I want to say, thank you very much. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the death of Mutula has denied me a long waited for opportunity; I had wanted to set up a partnership with him for defending the people’s agenda. I remember during the constitutional review process when we were making the new Constitution, Mutula as the Minister for Justice and National Cohesion could sometimes incite Martha Karua, Mungatana and Gitobu Imanyara to pursue a particular line of thought so that he could deliberately come up and agree with us. We did that and we got a new Constitution. Because there is no much time, I want to use this opportunity to send condolences on behalf of hon. Musalia Mudavadi. Mutula was the first senior politician in this country to endorse Hon. Mudavadi as a presidential candidate. It almost created a storm in his party but it came to pass. Finally, I want to remember, when I was an Assistant Minister at the East African Community, Mutula took on the Government and defeated it when it had encouraged corruption in its midst in the process of nominations of Members of Parliament to the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). Mutula defeated the Government and the taxpayer lost hundreds of millions shillings to pay for the legal process. In fact, I am reminded that it was Kshs360 million. For somebody who was committed to the fight against corruption, I would have loved that the people – the Government knows them – who cheated the Government that led to the loss of Kshs360 million, some of who were Members of Parliament, I would be happy if the Government decided to surcharge or decided to sell some of their properties so that this money should be not be borne by the taxpayer but by those people who misled the Government. I support."
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