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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to join my colleagues in expressing our deepest sympathy to the family of Boy Juma Boy, the people of Kwale and colleague brothers and sisters to a departed Senator. It will be said and we shall not be tired of repeating that we have lost a very polished, humorous and committed Senator. Death is like a thief; it steals at the most unexpected hour. That was a surprise and a deep disappointment to those who are left behind. I do not think that anybody could have imagined that as we left this Senate not too long ago to go on recess, we could come back less in number by one. In just a few days before we came back, as Sen. Wetangula has said so clearly, unexpectedly, we lost Boy Juma Boy. I have known Boy Juma Boy since the Seventh Parliament in 1993 when I entered as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Kisumu Rural Constituency and he was already a distinguished MP for Matuga Constituency and also Chief Whip for KANU. I remember one day a KANU Minister was speaking. I felt it did not make much sense what he was trying to explain and I rose on a point of order. I asked the Speaker whether that Minister had a medulla oblongata. Boy Juma Boy was very amused and asked the Speaker if I could explain what I meant. From then on, we have called each other “medulla”. Any time he met me, he could say; how are you “Medulla.” I answered; “Medulla” I am okay. That was vintage Boy Juma Boy; a very humorous, friendly and accommodating of all kinds of views and, definitely, an excellent debater. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I remember when we were campaigning in Kwale as the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) for Boy Juma Boy, going to poor villages deep inside the county; Boy Juma Boy would mix so comfortably and easily with the common people. Quite often he would sit down, taking off his shoes, drink local drinks with them and invite us to do the same. That was perhaps one of the most deep and meaningful campaigns I have carried out in my life as a politician. The only other place I felt like that was in Tharaka-Nithi, an equally very poor county where Joe Nyaga and I campaigned in 2007, deep in the villages where poor people believe that the future should be better by better governance welcomed us with open arms. It behooves us as Members of the Senate, as we go to the election, that that spirit that Boy Juma Boy had of commitment to the ordinary Kenyan to make his life 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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