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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to eulogize Sen. Kajwang who was my friend. Last night Sen. (Prof) Kindiki called me at about mid night. I thought it was one of those usual calls, but we had completed discussing what we needed to discuss about five minutes earlier. I was busy listening to some music before I sleep. He told me that he had no good news. It was suspected that my friend had passed on in one of the hospitals in Nairobi. I was shocked. Many Kenyans do not know that despite the fact that most of us are in different political parties and coalitions, that we have the best of relationships among ourselves. One of the persons who were so close to me, apart from many other Senators who are here on the other side, was Sen. Kajwang. Before I came to this House, I used to think when watching television and listening to the radio, that Sen. Kajwang was a volatile person and unfriendly. I used to think that politics has what Sen. Orengo has called the iron walls that are perceived out there. When I came to this House, I found out that Sen. Kajwang was a very humble man, a humorous person and he always made his point by humor. Sen. Kajwang’s face was like a book, it was easy to read it. If Sen. Kajwang loved you, or if he liked you, or liked what you did, you could see it even before he approaches you. If Sen. Kajwang did not like what you did, you would see it. There was no second guessing, if he was your friend, he was a loyal friend. There was no back-stabbing. It is true that he was very humorous. At one time, I went to a rally and criticized him for his tenure in office as the Minister for Immigration and Registration of Persons. So, when I arrived in this House he told me that “ Jatero, I saw you working very hard politically this weekend, invoking the good and famous name of Otieno Kajwang to assist your political profile”. That is how we laughed it off and the whole story ended there. I can remember very well, and you can be a witness Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that anyone who sits there as the Chair, like myself, if Sen. Kajwang is contributing, you will not even feel like sleeping. One of the confessions that you should make is that when you sit there, sometimes you can easily feel sleepy."
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