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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, first and foremost, on behalf of myself, my family and the leadership of Mombasa County and her people, I convey my heartfelt condolences to the family of the late Sen. Kajwang, his friends and the people of Homa Bay County. Since I came to this Senate, slightly over one year ago, I started developing a certain political nearness with Sen. Kajwang. He exuded extraordinary humour. In fact, at any opportune time when he had a minute or two, he would drop a joke or two on our diverse nature. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when I was watching television this morning, they ran some of his excerpts on Bado Mapambano . I have tried to sing that BadoMapambano sometime back, even on platforms that Sen. Kajwang has been, I am even trying to rehearse hoping that he will need a replacement in that regard and I realise that I am falling far short of being Sen. Kajwang. In that regard and many other regards, we will never have another Sen. Otieno Kajwang. Behind the humorous and good natured man, was a very deep sense of passion in terms of a belief in something. My own belief is that we will talk about his great deeds, speech and humour but we can best honour Sen. Kajwang by living with many of the ideals that he represented. Every other time I had any issue in Mombasa County or any other issues that touched on governance, my principal lobby would be Sen. Kajwang, because I knew when he spoke, the Senate would be at its greatest moment in terms of attention. People would listen and he had a way of communication. I recall when I sat in the Committee on impeachment of Bernard Kiala, the Deputy Governor of Machakos County, I called Sen. Kajwang but he told me that he would be travelling, I think, out of the country with the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. However, later on the Committee decided to postpone its travel by a day so that they could attend those proceedings. The late Senator asked me which way he should go. I told him that I had written him a minority report and he should just go with it and said that he would support the minority report. He said he would listen to me and base his remarks on what I would say. True to his words, when Sen. Kajwang spoke, it was evident that he had read through the report and, in fact, he was able to pick out certain things that some of us had failed to pick out in terms of the general content or issues around the impeachment of Bernard Kiala, the Deputy Governor for Machakos County. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we will miss him fondly and dearly. I believe he was an asset not only for the political opposition or the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) but generally for the entire country. I remember my last major political rally I was with him at Jacaranda in Embakasi a couple of weeks ago. I spoke just before he did and when I sat down, he told me a few words. He told me to remain focused and that being a first time legislator, he believed I was doing well. Those were kind words coming from a person of his stature. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, all I ask of us in this Senate is to honour him in the way that would make him proud; to live his values, speak out the truth boldly and courageously and to stand for the right things and cause. He had distinguished himself in 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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