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    "content": "involved, where the Government at that time tried to rig the Opposition out of the elections by bringing a Bill before Parliament with the words “not more than” instead of the constitutional provision which was “not less than” which would have put the Opposition in great jeopardy in nominating people to contest the elections. Eventually in that case, Pheroze Nowrojee, Senior Counsel, led the legal team, but without him, probably, the Opposition in 1992 would have ended up with 10 seats because they were caught unarmed and not ready for those elections being given only 14 days to carry out their nominations. In this business of elections, I remember last year when Sen. Kajwang was a little bit worried about the electronic voting system that was brought into the country so late. He warned that without extra care, the elections might not have gone the right way because the system was introduced rather too late. The other case which he did in the courts which has been reported, and it was an important case in that it is an important legal precedent, is about private prosecutions in the case of Raila Odinga vs Saitoti where he successfully sought the permission of the court to prosecute the Goldenberg case. But unfortunately, the Attorney-General (AG) took over the case then terminated it. Those in legal practice would remember that it was not an easy job for our friend Sen. Kajwang to do that case like many others, including constitutional cases, election petitions and many more that he did extremely pro bono . As we mourn him, let us, once again, because I think I am repeating this kind of speech for the tenth time; that in death we tend to become one people. But when we socialize and do our politics we see no evil and no goodness in our brother colleagues. It takes somebody of Sen. Kajwang’s character for everybody else to see the goodness in him. However, if it is somebody like me, some people will hardly see any goodness in me. Although, now there are a lot of people, including the Senate Majority Leader who sometimes appreciate the little things I have done."
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