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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to pass my condolences to the family of the late Gerald Otieno Kajwang’, the for Homa Bay County. I also pass my heartfelt condolences to my brother, hon. T. J. Kajwang’, a learned friend like Otieno Kajwang’, who sits in the panel of Chairs. Since the late Tom Mboya died in 1969, we have never lost, as the people of Homa Bay County, a person so huge in leadership abilities. The people of Homa Bay are mourning. By coincidence, I wanted to tell the nation that both of them came from the great Mbita Constituency now being led by my niece, hon. Milie Odhiambo. Otieno Kajwang’ was a great believer in the rule of law and democracy, especially multi-party democracy. The people of this country will remember that he was expelled from university for leading a riot of students when members of the then Opposition party were barred from contesting elections. He was also a believer in multi-party democracy and discipline within parties. That put him at loggerheads with people many times. The remarkable feature of Otieno was that he never disagreed with you with teeth grinning. In fact, he was always humorous even when he told you that, as a party, they were going to deal with you. It is the humor we will need to search for. It is because of his belief in human rights, democracy and good governance that he joined those who fought for the new constitutional order. Indeed, when the people of Kenya were celebrating that with the advent of the new constitutional system we were home and dry, he never hesitated to remind us, as a people, that a mere constitutional document was not enough. He would, therefore, foment his signature song badomapambano to say that there was still much more to be done in terms of actualizing the ideals that we have in the constitutional document. He believed in a leadership based The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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