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    "id": 503561,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Gwendo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joy Adhiambo Gwendo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to join my colleagues to remember a friend, an uncle, a colleague and a jovial man. Many of my colleague Senators might not know that I was the first Senator to get to the hospital yesterday. I happened not to be asleep by the time most of the Senators were being called. I saw Big Ted who works at State House calling me several times. I wondered why he would be calling me at midnight. Then he told me Sen. Kajwang is dying and I decided to call back. He told me that they are at the Mater Hospital. I got there within 30 minutes and found him still in the suit he wore in the Senate in his smile. I remembered the way he used to call me nyathima nyako meaning, young girl. As his colleagues, we cannot feel the same way that the family members are feeling. However, we can only help them and pray for them. A few minutes later, we were with Mr. Speaker, the Senate Majority Leader and the Member of Parliament for Nyando. There was nothing much we could tell the family. However, indeed, death is a painful thing. I remembered when we were in Mombasa, the way he was being praised as the Senator with the punch line. We need to ask ourselves whether we lost the Senator with the punch line. Have we lost the punch line or will we create another punch line? I do not have much to say but I will go to the Bible and quote Job Chapter 1: “The Lord gives, the Lord takes. Glory be to Him”."
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