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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kang’ata",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you do not mind, I request that you add me some few minutes so that I can adequately eulogise Mr. Matiba. First and foremost, I would like to say that I was raised in a place called Murang’a Town but I hail from a place called Kahuya Gathinja. Incidentally, that is where Stanley Njindo Matiba comes from. So, he was my village mate by virtue of the fact that we come from the same place. Matiba became prominent because of several things: One, he did something that was quite unthinkable in our region. He defeated a person called Kiano who was a very prominent Minister between 1963 and 1979. No one ever thought Kiano could be defeated because, first, he had a stature of becoming a president and secondly, he was the first person to get a PhD in this country. Therefore, for a person to defeat Kiano, it was history in the making. When Matiba came to Kiharu Constituency, he was able to do that revolution in 1979 that made him to become a household name. For those who can recall those days, when I was not yet born, by then Kiharu Constituency was called Mbiri Constituency and it was always being serialised in the newspapers. After he won that seat, Matiba again won the same seat in 1983 and 1988. He again did another unthinkable thing; he resigned from the Government of Moi and decided to venture into private things. Apart from that, Matiba also had a very unique history by virtue of having been a Permanent Secretary (PS) at the age of 31 years old. That was about 1961, 1963 or 1964. He decided not to be a PS to accumulate wealth and resigned to venture in private business. He then became the chairperson of the East African Breweries Limited (EABL) at a very tender age. He was able to accumulate a lot of wealth and became a rich man. When he decided, in 1989, to start agitation for multipartyism, it was quite a unique experience. This was because there were so many other people who wanted to concentrate on their private endeavours, but Matiba on his own motion said “no, let me fight for multipartyism.” I was told that when he called the press conference at Chester House, there was a senior politician by then from our region, who I will not mention, who was to accompany him. He agreed with Matiba to meet at Chester House to announce how they were going to fight the government only for Matiba to find himself alone at Chester House with the media. So, he made that announcement, he was then arrested and you all know the history that followed. However, because of being taken into detention, his personal health suffered and his businesses started to deteriorate. Unlike other rich people who always 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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