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    "id": 493346,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/493346/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to join the rest of the country in sending my own messages of condolences and that of the people of Rarieda to the family of this great Kenya, an academic giant. I only managed to meet Prof. Mazrui once, but even before I met him, I had become an ardent reader of the many informative opinion pieces he penned in our dailies from time to time. I got the privilege to share an audience with him when he delivered a very famous Jaramogi Oginga Odinga lecture at the Laico Regency Hotel sometimes in the middle of the last decade. From the lecture and even from the many articles that the Professor has been writing, he came across as a man of infectious concise and prodigious knowledge. I do not want to repeat what everybody has said and what is a fact, but Kenya and the world as a whole has truly lost an academic giant. Indeed, I feel proud to have been born in the same country as this great man. Even as we send our messages of condolences and tribute to this great professor and great son of Kenya, the cry of shame for our country must be why we find it so difficult to recognise our heroes and reward them accordingly in their lifetime. I say so because some 11 years ago, a Kenyan died in the general ward of the Kenyatta National Hospital, a nameless, faceless and unknown person. This Kenyan, unknown to many, was the first Kenyan who made it possible for our National Anthem to be played at any Olympic stadium in any part of the world. Here, I am talking about Naftali Temu, the first Kenyan to win an Olympic Gold Medal in 1968 in Mexico City. Even in death, this great Kenyan was not accorded the honour he deserved. Last year, Kenya lost perhaps one of the greatest academic giants of all times in East African when Prof. David Wasawo passed on. Unknown to many, Prof. David Wasawo was actually the first black professor in the whole of East Africa, yet in his The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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