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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ombaka",
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        "legal_name": "Christine Oduor Ombaka",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. I support the Motion because any country needs to know who its heroes are. They need to remember them and record the history of the people who have become heroes and heroines. For sure, the late Michael Wamalwa Kijana was known internationally. As hon. Members have said here, this was a scholar and a man of great distinction, with a powerful background. He was a lawyer; he spoke the Queen’s English, and he had many students who admired him. Those who study law and those whom he taught at the university remember him very well. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I met him because he was a great friend of my brother in-law, who was a lawyer, Dr. Oki Ombaka; he was a great friend of the late hon. Michael Wamalwa. When I met him for the first time, I could tell that this was straight away a hero, because he inspired so many of us. A hero is one person whom society remembers by naming their children after him. In my community, I know of three young boys who are named Kijana Wamalwa. That in itself is recognition of his heroism. We name people after those who have passed on because we want to remember them. It is done partly for remembrance and partly for respect. Therefore, the very fact that there are so many children named after him is in itself an indication that Kijana Wamalwa was a great man, and we should remember him and put him down in our history. Therefore, the naming of a university after his name will come at the right time. In any case, he was himself a scholar, a man who taught at the university; therefore associating him with a university is the right thing to do. I will support the naming and upgrading of Kitale Technical College to university level; even though I am aware that there are other universities there. There are other universities there, but there is nothing wrong with having more than one or more than two in one area because a university will admit students from all over the country."
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