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    "content": "You did not have to think about it twice. It is because Sen. Kajwang was a good man. In many instances in this country you find that even when we see the goodness of each one of us we tend to build walls around us. It is like the iron curtain; that so long as Sen. Orengo belongs to ODM or CORD, you build an iron curtain so that you do not see the goodness of a Kenyan patriot simply by the colour of his skin or the place he comes from. The fact that Sen. Kajwang could overcome all these characterizations, I have seen and witnessed like the Senate Minority Leader said that people crossed this Floor to go and talk to Sen. Kajwang. That is the kind of man and people we want in this country so that Kenya can become one nation. Although, in his novel, Ayi Kwei Armah said that the beautiful ones are not yet born, I say that when you see people like Sen. Kajwang in their conduct and what they do without hate or malice, I see the beautiful ones are here, but many times we do not see them. In Kenya, there is something that is happening; that we tend to appreciate people in death rather than when they are alive. When we relate and socialize, we do not have the warmth of patriots, zealots and nationalists. I remember that Jaramogi Oginga Odinga one time told me, when I asked him why he mourned Kenyatta so much when Kenyatta died. He said that Kenyatta died his friend. It is people who built a wall between him and the first President. So many times we build walls between ourselves and, therefore, Kenya cannot move ahead. If there is one thing we can learn from this death, shown by the leaders who turned out at The Mater Hospital, it is that, indeed simple things like a wedding or a death in the family can make Kenya become one nation of true patriots. When we sit down on a matter that concerns a nation, we do not have any divisions. Sometimes good men like Sen. Kajwang live their lives struggling. He would have had one of the best legal practices in this country. However, if you look at the kind of work he was doing pro bono; acting for students and leaders in distress who were detained, there is no way that he could have built a healthy legal practice. The other person I can think of, in that category is Dr. John Khaminwa. He had a very good practice, but because of his commitment to fellow Kenyans, irrespective of tribe, his practice simply went haywire. In doing so, Sen. Kajwang had some obsession on how we hold elections. Some of you may remember that there was a case in which he was 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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