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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ochillo-Ayacko",
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        "legal_name": "Ochilo George Mbogo Ayacko",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, if it was not for that, even you, as my party leader and official, would not have found your way to this House. We are happy that an opportunity has come before us to make proposals to immortalise the good work of hon. Matiba by naming Murang’a University of Technology as Kenneth Stanley Njindo Matiba University of Technology. Madam Temporary Speaker, I also enjoy remote association with hon. Matiba, since he went to Alliance High School. He was in Smith House while I was in Francis House in the same school. Allow me, just as Sen. Kang'ata took pride in associating with hon. Matiba for coming from a place called Murang’a, to also say that he and I went to a school where the philosophy was “Strong to Serve.” On that humble note, I agree that we should immortalise the name ‘Matiba.’ At that time when he went to school – which was before Independence – he was coming from a community that was under siege from British terrorism. The British had invaded this country and every home in Central Kenya and other parts of Kenya was under subjugation. For somebody to have come from the hills of Murang’a and even thought of going to school – and a uniquely very good school formed by the Alliance of Churches – is an achievement that we should recognize and have a university named after that kind of person. Perhaps a section of the University should have a library that should record what this particular individual achieved. It was difficult to avoid the influence of the absence of parents who, perhaps, had been chased away by the Mau Mau and the colonialists, go to school, proceed to Makerere University and offer oneself to serve this nation. Madam Temporary Speaker, Hon. Matiba joined the Public Service when he was relatively young. Many Kenyans join Public Service when they are young, but he was among the few people who looked ahead and worked tirelessly on their career. He rose to the very top of Public Service at such a meteoric pace and short time. Unlike the tenure of young persons, like most of us today whose tenure is how quickly you get rich but how little you do, that is the behaviour of young persons who get into leadership. Currently, young people celebrate people who refer to them by funny descriptions like ‘hustlers’ and others that I do not want to say here. I do not want Members to pick on what I say about this very nice person. If you look at the Public Service career of Hon. Matiba, you are unlikely to find a scandal. Most people who have risen to the top have their cupboards full of skeletons and issues that if you were to open, you would be asked not to discuss the dead."
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