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    "id": 503546,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to eulogize my brother, Sen. Kajwang. In so doing, I wish to use this opportunity to send my condolences, personal, family, on behalf of the people I represent in Kakamega County and my larger national constituency to the family of Sen. Kajwang. As many have said before me, Sen. Kajwang was a great politician. I want to confess today that when I was campaigning during the 2013 General Election, I could tell people in Kakamega that I wanted them to give me a chance so that I could go and join hands with great debaters in the Senate like Otieno Kajwang, James Orengo, Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o and many others. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, yesterday, I had the rare opportunity of being requested by Sen. Kajwang to go and sit right next to him and he told me that something was disturbing him; he wanted us to join hands on an amendment Bill on the National Police Service Act by Sen. Elachi. He told me that we should go out of our way to sensitize Senators so that we delete one of our amendments. Because I do not want to anticipate debate, I will not state which that amendment is, but I will be using this announcement to persuade colleagues that apparently Sen. Kajwang was asking me to do that for him by way of a premonition of the impending death. I do not know who will fill the national platform that Sen. Otieno Kajwang has left on the Floor of this Parliament; who will fill the national platform that Otieno Kajwang has left at Uhuru Park where we addressed many liberation rallies together; I do not know who will fill the regional platform that Otieno Kajwang used to address at Tononoka Grounds where his voice would boom and echo with the whispering winds of the palms of the coast; I do not know who will fill the regional platform in Kisumu, Moi Stadium, where Otieno Kajwang and I addressed many national rallies and where he could move crowds with his Bado mapambano lyrics, and; lastly, I do not know who will fill the regional platform at Kakamega Muliro Gardens where Otieno Kajwang freely melted into rhythm in song and dance with his in-laws, the brothers and sisters of his wife. I say pole to my sister who has lost her husband. I mourn."
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