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    "id": 982388,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/982388/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Maalim Mahamud",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I join you and the rest of Kenya in condoling the family of the late Daniel Toroitich arap Moi for the loss of our second President. I served as an ambassador for seven years under the late Daniel Toroitich arap Moi. I served as the Kenyan ambassador to Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and later Eritrea during the burden of war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is true that the late Daniel Toroitich arap Moi was a humble man. He came to power when I had just joined the public service as a civil servant. At that time, many people thought that he could not rule the country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I must state that Kenya’s political trajectory changed when the late Daniel Toroitich arap Moi came into power because a new life was breathed into Kenya’s politics and governance. The late Daniel Toroitich arap Moi was known for inclusivity. In fact, regions like where I come from came to be known in Government after he came to power. It is only during President Moi’s reign that public service was headed by a Pokomo, the army was headed by a Somali and the National Treasury was headed by a Burji from Marsabit. President Moi’s cabinet was very inclusive; no particular tribe dominated it. A lot can be said about the late Daniel Toroitich arap Moi. In his foreign policy, we wanted to firewall Kenya from the spill overs of the Cold War. When he became the President, the world was bipolar; the West and the East. Kenya navigated through a very different path left by him. The late Daniel Toroitich arap Moi was our first President to go to China against the wish and thinking of many of the West. However, the visit to China did not make him a communist."
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