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    "id": 494737,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/494737/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I want to take this opportunity to thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to pay tribute to what for now is the greatest Kenyan scholar who ever lived. I personally knew the late Prof. Ali Mazrui. I spent some time with him when we met in conferences when both of us were in the United States of America in the 1990s. He used to tell us about the difficult years that he had in Africa those days. When somebody dies, it is very easy to see only the good circumstances that he went through, but sometimes we forget the difficulties that people go through. Madam Temporary Speaker, Prof. Mazrui would have very much wanted to teach at our own University of Nairobi, but it was made practically impossible for him to teach at the University of Nairobi because of the backward and retrogressive politics that this country was playing at that particular time. The only time that Prof. Mazrui came to speak at the University of Nairobi is in the early days of President Moi’s regime. He had come from Uganda and was just passing through because although he had made Uganda his residence, the politics of the murderous regime of the late President Iddi Amin would not allow him to continue being the Chairman of the Faculty of Political Science at Makerere University. 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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