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    "id": 982367,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I join you, the House and the nation at large in sending a message of condolences to the family of the late Mzee Moi who was a nationalist, Pan-Africanist and internationalist. We shall remember Mzee Moi for the many things that he did to hold this country together. In 1992, after the general elections, he nominated me to Parliament alongside 11 others and we served the country with dignity and dedication. In so doing, I got to be close to him. There are many positive things that many people have never talked about. I will limit myself to the things that he did that held this country together. In 1966/1967, after the fall out between Mzee Kenyatta and his vice President, Mzee Moi together with Masinde Muliro and Ronald Ngala, from the Coast, crossed the Floor, folded the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU) and joined the Kenya African National Union (KANU) to hold the country together at the time Kenya People’s Union (KPU) was born. We all know the humiliation he went through as a vice President, but he was an enduring lesson of humility. He never hit back at those who humiliated him publicly; he moved on to make this country better. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in 1992, after his friends had pushed the country to introduce Section 2A in the Constitution to make Kenya a defacto one party State, former President Moi singularly defied his advisors and moved back the country to multipartysm in response to the clamour for multipartysm in the country and diffused the tension in the country. In 1997, in this Parliament—"
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