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    "id": 503740,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to pass my condolences for and on behalf of my people of Chuka/Igambangombe Constituency. I would like to pass my most sincere condolences to the family, the people of Homa Bay and Mbita. I would also like to convey my condolences to hon. T. J. Kajwang’, who is our colleague in the House. My first assignment out of this country when I came to Parliament was to Korea to represent the Energy Committee where we were supposed to visit nuclear power stations and assess nuclear energy as it was meant to be implemented by the Government of Kenya. That Committee joined with the Senate Committee where Otieno Kajwang’ was a Member. The Leader of the delegation was hon. Gideon Moi, the for Baringo County. Kajwang’ did not have political boundaries. When it came to his style of operation, he was so outgoing that he did not care which political divide one came from. I remember when we were very skeptical about visiting the nuclear plants, he joked about death in a way that made all of us feel a bit comfortable to actually visit those nuclear plants. We have not, in many years, as a Government, seen a politician who brings people together like Otieno Kajwang’. He would stimulate his crowd to actually dance. I would equate him to the President of South Africa, the dancing President, hon. Zuma, who dances his way to the hearts of the people of South Africa. When I and other Members had not come to this House, we remember Kajwang’ for being very passionate in his appeals on the Floor of this House. I remember him for his great expression that there is no passionomete r to measure passion in people who display passion in carrying out their duties. This is the kind of leadership and representation we are mourning today, as having lost one great leader of Homa Bay County."
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