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    "content": "Pokot are Kenyans and must live in peace and we must help them live in peace. That is Kajwang for you. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, so that we give a chance to other Members to speak; on behalf of the CORD fraternity, on behalf of my co-principals, Hon. Raila Odinga, Hon. Kalonzo Musyoka and the entire leadership, I join hands with our brothers and sisters across the Floor to learn and say that the loss of Sen. Kajwang is first and foremost to the family, to his constituents and a loss to this House and the broader family of CORD. We will miss him. His family will miss him even more. His constituents will miss him even more. For us to show the country that we feel a great sense of loss of our own brother, I want to urge us to dedicate, like we have done this afternoon, to soberly pour grief, condole the family and say the little or the much we have had with Sen. Otieno Kajwang. He was a ferocious fighter and crusader of what he believed in. Whether you found him in court as a practicing lawyer, whether you found him in a rally, on the Floor of this House, or even in a coffee house, taking coffee with colleagues, he will still speak convincingly about his convictions. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are not many like him. He was a crowd puller; a crowd exciter when he speaks and he was loved by many. I am sure he was loved most by his immediate family; his dear wife, children and parents. It is with a heavy heart that we have read a 4-1-1 that his old father, on hearing the news, also suffered some health difficulty and has been taken to hospital. We wish him quick recovery so that we do not have a double tragedy in the family. As I end, I want once again, to pay my greatest respect to a friend, a learned colleague, a fellow politician, a distinguished leader, a committed and patriotic Kenyan and a Kenyan who believed that for each and every one of us in public life and public calling, we have a duty to leave this country better than we found it. Sen. Kajwang strived to leave this country better than he found it. He has left this country better than he found it. For us who knew him and who were friends to him, we are now the poorer with his departure. May the good Lord rest his soul in eternal peace."
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