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    "id": 503772,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I also want to join my colleagues in condoling with the family and friends of my good friend, Kajwang’. I came to know him about 22 years ago to be exact, in 1992 when I was a student at the University of Nairobi. He was such a nice person that he was able to mingle even with his juniors with a lot of ease. I later worked with him in FORD(K) when I was a student at the university. Indeed, at one point when I was the Secretary General of the Students and Youth Congress of FORD(K), he was my mentor. Many at times, we would walk to his law firm offices at the National Housing Corporation House on Aga Khan Walk. He was a great mentor to many university students. He was known to be extremely principled. If he believed in a course, he truly believed in it. I remember when we decamped from FORD(K) to the NDP, he was at the forefront in early 1996. Later, he contested and won with a lot of ease his Mbita seat in 1997 on an NDP ticket. He retained his seat for three terms in a row. That is a testimony to the fact that he was a true man of the people. I happen to have met him briefly yesterday, a few hours before he died, at the Members Lounge. He was in his true element, jovial as ever. I can only take this opportunity to wish his family well and pray to God to give them all the strength that they need at this very trying moment. 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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