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    "content": "I remember vividly at one point when some of us were considered as elements who were enemies to the Government of the day; at that stage he warned us that ‘in your soul journey you should be careful, otherwise you are earmarked for being picked by the colonial government because you are considered to be a communist’. Yet he was in that same government as many other senior officers in charge of higher education and had the courtesy to tell us of the impending trouble before us. We used that with great wisdom. My second encounter is when the Hon. Matiba rose to the occasion. He was a lover of sports and he became the Minister for Culture and Sports at the time when we were hosting the All Africa Games in this country in 1987. He picked me with the late Job Omino as one of the people to direct the games of 1987, because he realised that he had so much love for sports and athletics and particularly, football. My other encounter is at the time of the second liberation. All these years he used to refer to me as Sam and I would call him Ken. He was a man of impeccable character, integrity and stood for the principles espoused at that stage. His passing on is a vivid reminder of what we, as Kenyans, must be when history is recorded. Our history has been very cruel in the sense that the heroes who have fought for the liberation and for the kind of life that we enjoy today are forgotten in the other deep end of the divide. As Senate, when we pay this tribute we must bring into perspective the kind of heroes and heroines we have had in this nation so that they are put appropriately in the books of history. I hope that the Senate in our visit tomorrow should be a tacit recognition"
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