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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to eulogize the great lawyer that Sen. Mutula Kilonzo was. Unlike many of the speakers who spoke before me, I never had personal interaction with the late Mutula Kilonzo. However, I remember that when I was making a decision to become a lawyer, three people were inspirational to me. One of them was the late Sen. Mutula Kilonzo. The other was James Orengo. Therefore, when I was elected to the Senate and I heard that they had been elected through their respective political parties to become Senators, I knew that was an opportunity for me to learn from the best legal minds. This is a man who got First Class Honours and I looked forward – we were put together in one of the Committees – to debating and learning from the knowledge that he had, but unfortunately, we have been robbed by death of that very unique opportunity. Luckily, there are other senior lawyers here that we will learn from. When we were in campus, many years ago - do not ask me when - I would go, in the morning hours at the magistrates court and in the afternoon to the Court of Appeal and watch how he would prosecute his matters. He was quite an inspiration. He was the kind of a person that after I went back, I wanted to write about what had happened in the Court of Appeal and not what had happened in the lower courts. If there is a man who demonstrated passion for what he loved, this was Sen. Mutula Kilonzo. He was very passionate in defending his clients, but also in the cause that he believed. When he was in KANU, he was passionate in defending KANU. I went to court, those days in campus because I was a political activist of some sort. When students were expelled, he used to act for the university. Therefore, he was known as the university lawyer. After that, Mutula continued to defend the cause that he believed in. He defended his party KANU and his client Mr. Moi. He later defended other The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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