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    "id": 503748,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to condole my great friend. I am trying to look for what to say within the three minutes. Let me start by saying that this is probably the second greatest Suba to lose his life after the death of Tom Joseph Mboya in 1969. I know many Subas who have died, but the truth is that this is the second greatest Suba, after Tom Joseph Mboya. I knew Otieno Kajwang’ in 1992 when I was at the University of Nairobi. I remember we travelled with Kajwang’ in his car to Mbita to conduct nominations for FORD Kenya in October 1992. When we arrived, the crowd demanded that he should be the candidate. He was in a jeans trouser and people said, “You are the young man, we want you. We do not want these elderly people”. Otieno Kajwang’ turned it down and conducted the nomination where the late Omolo Pere, became the MP for Mbita Constituency, as it was known then. That time Mbita included my constituency. Fast forward, I remember again in 1996 when we started working very closely with Otieno Kajwang’. The day before the National Development Party (NDP) was formed, on the eve of 1997, we were with Otieno Kajwang’ together with a group of university students. Otieno Kajwang’ asked us what we needed to do given that there were controversies around the leadership of FORD Kenya. We advised him that Raila should form another party because already the government of the day had infiltrated FORD Kenya party. Otieno Kajwang’ laughed and said that was his idea and the following day we would see a serious announcement. That is what we saw. Hon. Speaker, unknown to this House, if it were not for Senator Otieno Kajwang’, probably I would not be in this House. Why am I saying so? After I had won my nomination, because I was not very well known in the party hierarchy, I was actually almost denied the nomination paper. Even after I had been given the nomination certificate, someone else was again given the same certificate. It was the intervention of the late Senator Otieno Kajwang’ that made me succeed to be a Member of Parliament. Hon. Speaker, I can see my time is up, but allow me to say one thing before I sit down. Before Senator Otieno Kajwang’ became a, I went to his office thrice and he was very reluctant; insisting the he has to run--- Just one minute, hon. Speaker."
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