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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ongoro",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Elizabeth Ongoro Masha",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Motion, though it is very sad that I support such a Motion. I personally knew Sen. Mutula when I was appointed as the Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Nairobi Metropolitan Development and he was the Minister. I had the rare opportunity to work with a man who was so disciplined. I thought I was so disciplined, but my encounter with him raised my level of discipline. He was so disciplined and such a workaholic. At exactly 6.30 a.m., he was in the office. I think he told me that he was always in his private office by 5.30 a.m. and by 6.30 a.m., he was in the Ministry office and we would have our meetings at 7.00 a.m. He was a humble man with such a rare sense of humor that if any difficult situation arose, he would somehow drive the Ministry out of it. I remember one such situation when we had a problem with Kajiado County when they were having problems joining the metropolis. He told me: “Just give me three days and I will solve that.” What he did was to transfer the Ministry to Narok. We went to Maasai Mara and for three days, we were running the affairs of the Ministry in the wild. That somehow appealed to the people of Kajiado and they joined. I am talking of a man who was so highly educated, yet almost every time, he would be having such a listening ear to you and everybody else, thinking out of the box for the sake of moving forward and solving any problem. For the time that I worked with him, it was difficult to know that he was a man of means. He was so humble and he treated all of us equally. As I stand here I find it very difficult because we were with him in this same building for almost three years as his Assistant Minister. For me to stand in this same building to talk about the death of Mutula Kilonzo, a man who I thought I had known all my life. When we were still in school, he was one of those people that would encourage you to really think of yourself as a lawyer. I believe all my classmates who 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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