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    "id": 769221,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Koech",
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        "legal_name": "Sammy Cheruiyot Koech",
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    "content": "Secondly, I also take this opportunity on my own behalf and on behalf of my family to pass condolences to my immediate predecessor Hon. Eric Keter, the immediate former Member of Parliament for Belgut. I contested with him in the election in 2013. He beat me even though I was in a popular party, the United Republican Party (URP) where I had won the nominations while he was in KANU. Again in 2017, it was a rematch between the two of us. I trounced him, but that notwithstanding he was a great person. From history, he started as a teacher and rose all the way to be a mayor and finally a Member of Parliament for Belgut Constituency. He had initiated many projects in my constituency. One of them is fashioned from the Starehe Schools where children from disadvantaged families like orphans attend these schools without paying any fees, both for girls and boys. Today, we mourn a great person. It is only two weeks ago when Hon. Shinali, Member of Parliament for Ikolomani and I shared a podium with the late Hon. Keter in my constituency. Hon. Shinali had attended a burial of his brother-in-law. They were together in the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology. I told him jokingly that he needed to teach me the ropes. Hon. Keter was a very generous man. I had trouble many times especially when I went to rallies where he was in attendance. He had deep pockets. I would have trouble leaving the venue where he was. I used to jokingly tell him how he should then hang his political boots, own me and teach me to maintain the same generosity. I was told on Monday morning that he had succumbed to cardiac arrest."
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