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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the late Boy Juma Boy and I have traveled to many parts of the world, and indeed, I looked forward to travelling with him and sharing the evenings and meals with him. Like Sen. Cheruiyot has alluded, we spent a little bit of time with him in Tokyo in the Committee on ICT visit. I think those of us who visited with him that time will recall how jovial he was throughout the visit. For me when I remember the baritone voice that he had always calling out: “Chairman, Chairman, where are we heading to?” I will miss Sen. Boy Juma Boy. I will miss his advice and that look that he always had; as if he was thinking: “I know something that you do not know”. In those home visitations; to Sen. (Dr.) Lesan, to Kisumu and my own home in Nyeri County, one of the things that come to my mind as we mourn our friend, as he leaves us, is that we truly do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we are simply keeping it in custody for our children. It is evident that we are all heading towards the same journey and sometimes – this came to mind when I heard that Sen. Boy Juma Boy is no more – you really wonder what this is all about. I shared it with my friend, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. I called him and I said: “What is all this about”. All these earthly things that we are looking for, it is vanity. One of the things that come to mind even as we mourn our friend is that, simplicity and humility are perhaps the greatest characteristics that we can have. That humility and love for our people are perhaps some of the traits we should learn and borrow from the late Sen. Boy Juma Boy. We will miss him and his guidance. As he sits out there, I know he is telling those who are there with him: “Sikizeni kwa makini”. In his beautiful Swahili. May the Lord rest his soul in eternal peace."
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