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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to take this opportunity on my own behalf and on behalf of the people I represent, the people of Meru on this very sad and painful occasion to send my most sincere condolences to the family, relatives and friends of our friend Sen. Mutula Kilonzo and the people he represents, that is, the people of Makueni. This is a moment when one does not really have the words to express himself on this matter. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have known Mutula Kilonzo for a long time. He was a truly great man and we could also describe him as a man for all seasons. Mutula is a man who thoroughly enjoyed his life. My own images of him is when as the Minister for Education, he went to dance with school girls and the school girls decided to kneel down, lie down in the dance and Mutula knelt and also went down on the dust with them. That was Mutula Kilonzo. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mr. Kilonzo rose to stardom early in his life when he became the first law student in East Africa to get a first class degree in law. He never got employed by anybody. He did pupilage with G.M. Gakure and Company Advocates. Thereafter, he set up his own firm. As young people in 1980s we campaigned for him and he became the youngest chairman of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) after Lee Muthoga and Senator Wako where he did a great job as a young chairman of the LSK. In the late 1980s and early 1990s he became the lawyer for the former President Mr. Moi and KANU. I remember we fought him hard because those were the days of the struggle for multiparty democracy and he would not hear of it. He was fighting for single party rule and showing us the virtues of President Daniel arap Moi. I remember at one time at the meeting of International Committee of Jurists (ICJ) at Safari Park, we had to throw him out of the meeting because he became unruly in his defence of KANU and the one party rule. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mr. Kilonzo’s true leadership came out in the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs. This is one of the most difficult dockets that anybody can handle. All the Ministers who have been in that Ministry had to leave under fire. The first Minister, Mr. Tom Mboya, you remember what happened to him; then the Ministry was abolished for many years. Then the former Attorney-General, 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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