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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this corner where I sit is beginning to get a little spooky because the seat on which I sit is the seat that my late brother Gerald Otieno Kajwang sat on. Just next to it is the seat where the late Boy Juma Boy sat on. I have been wondering whether I should relocate, but as a Christian, I know that death has been defeated and so I shall not relocate. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the people of Homa Bay, I wish to convey their condolences. Sen. Boy Juma Boy joined us in Homa Bay in November, 2016 when we were celebrating the second anniversary of the death of the late Sen. Gerald Otieno Kajwang. I have listened to most speakers and it appears that the late Boy Juma Boy had visited virtually every other county. Earlier on, when Members of the National Assembly started their session today, they started with a eulogy on Boy Juma Boy. Many of the Members of the National Assembly also confessed that Boy Juma Boy had visited them and campaigned for them. So, that is the kind of person that we are talking about. He was capable of travelling 1,000 kilometres from Kwale to Homa Bay to join a colleague, not a senior party leader but the junior-most Senator in the House. He was a man who did not have divisions or look at issues of age or seniority. In fact, if anything, I am the one who was supposed to be visiting him before he visited me. He was loved by all. For the two years I have been in this Senate, I have sat dutifully next to Sen. Boy Juma Boy. Beyond the formal learning of the Standing Orders, he taught me a lot about Parliament. He had capacity for mischief. There was a lot of mischief that we would make behind here. As a Senator was on the floor, he would tell me one or two cheeky things about Senators. Thanks to him, I know quite a little bit more about my colleagues, more than the Press or what is out there in the public domain. I was with Sen. Boy Juma Boy before I became a Senator in 2013 in Uganda when we went to witness his daughter take the Hippocratic Oath. My brother was also taking the Oath. As a Parliament, Sen. Boy Juma Boy’s daughter is a doctor in the public health sector. The best way of mourning and eulogizing the late Senator would be for us to rise to the occasion and resolve the health crisis that is going to its 73rd day. I wish to salute and hail the Chairperson of the Committee on Health for the steps he has taken so far. I hope we will go further and have a resolution to this. Considering that the late Senator joined Parliament in 1983, he was not corrupt. We have seen people who have joined Parliament barely four years ago and the speed at which they get rich is supersonic, to say the least. One day I asked him: “Sen. Boy Juma Boy, we are going to elections and the IEBC has said we can spend up to Kshs200 million in campaigns. How much have you set aside? He told me: “My brother, I do not even have Kshs1 million.” However, he was confident that if he saw the day of the election, he was going to win. May we reflect upon the scriptures and literature and remember Leo Tolstoy in his seminal work when he asked how much land a man needs, it does not matter whether you loot the whole world, on that final day, the amount of land you need is six feet wide and six feet deep. 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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