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    "id": 866389,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "He was speaking about his experiences. I could not help but think that as he was picking lessons that he learnt in training, most of the things that I have learnt later in life, the thick skin that I have, the ability to endure a lot was in the NYS. We learnt to sleep while on our feet. I am not exaggerating. We would literally fall asleep while standing. We learnt to get water where there is none. We learnt to eat ugali with a bone. We learnt very many things and we were hardened at the NYS. I was laughing when Hon. Duale and my colleague Hon. Murugara were talking about the issue of Mt. Kioko. Fortunately for us as the women, we did not go to Mt. Kioko but we saw it at a distance. I remember we had a terrible person at their camp. I think we joined them for about a month or so. He was called General Kofa. He would tell you that ‘ nafunga macho na nikifungua nikute umezunguka ’. He would close and open his eyes and say ‘ nimefunga na nimefungua, bado uko hapa? ’ You then had to climb the hill. We were hardened. So it is one of the things that I am thankful to God for. I have learnt many lessons that I would have never learnt in any school or any class. I can never exchange it with anything in the world. However, one of the things I did not like about that experience at the NYS is that it was compulsory. It is nice when people go voluntarily so that it is not a compulsory thing. Every human being has a tendency to resist anything that is being forced upon them. So, when it is made voluntary like this one it is very good."
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