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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maore",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Maore Maoka",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to convey my condolences to the family and the people of Murang’a as well as Kenyans in general. Those days when that happened, I had an experience of the force of who Matiba was on 19thJuly 1992. It is the day I was returning from the USA to come and contest the December elections that year. I was not able to reach home the same day. We slept somewhere near Embu because the State that time never wanted Matiba to go beyond Rupingazi River. The entire traffic was blocked. You could neither go forward nor backward. There was nothing to do. As we convey our condolences, we want to celebrate and mourn the passing on of Matiba. He was a great man together with the people he led – Paul Muite, Masinde Muliro, George Anyona and others. It was not a fashionable thing to fight for multiparty democracy at that time. Section 2A was repealed a few months earlier but those who repealed it were not sure whether they wanted to repeal it. So, they were trying to go back to the old ways in very many ways. I join those who are saying that we move forward but, in the same spirit, we have to revisit the words of the MP for Kandara that, in the process of mourning, there are many comedians who will show up there to be seen yet they never shared the spirit of Matiba and the liberation struggle. After we had been sworn-in as Members of the Seventh Parliament, during the State Opening of Parliament, he led the entire team of 31 Members to storm out of this Chamber because he could not stand the presence of his persecutors and tormentors in this Assembly. When he started the issue of technical appearances, it had never been done before. I saw some NASA people, early last year, attempting to copy it although they were signing for allowances. Hon. Matiba never signed for those things."
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