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    "id": 982397,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/982397/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Haji",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 26,
        "legal_name": "Yusuf Mohammed Haji",
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    "content": "is today as a result of his leadership and the love that he had for this country and its people. I remember as a young District Officer (DO) in Kisumu; I was the DO Boma. The District Commissioner (DC) was Mr. J. P. Bondo in 1969 when the President of Somalia, Mr. Sharmarke, was shot. I went to the office of the DC to brief him at Winam, which was the headquarters. When I entered his office, the greeting was: “ Oh, poleBwana Haji, for the death of your President.” I was shocked. I asked him: “Which president?” He said: “The President of Somalia.” When the late former President Moi took over, he integrated the whole of Northern Kenya that is, North Eastern and upper Kenya, into the mainstream of Kenya. I recall he appointed Hon. Hussein Maalim as a Minister, Hon. (Dr.) Bonaya Godana as a Minister and I, whose ‘president’ was assumed to have died in Somalia, became the first Somali Provincial Commissioner (PC). He had a big heart and he wanted the best for the whole country. He will also be remembered when he handed over power in the Ninth Parliament. Many young people came to Parliament. Some from the Rift Valley used to criticize him. You can confirm that from the HANSARD. I reminded them that most of them used to live in grass-thatched houses with no electricity or water. Today, they wear ties and very good shoes, yet they criticize Mzee Moi who brought them to where they are. All of us here, young and old--- There are some who drunk the Nyayo milk and went to universities that he constructed. I want to commend my brother, Sen. Orengo because although he was detained, he did not criticize the late former President Moi when he was talking here. I think many Kenyans are losing their way and have no ethos at all. In the African culture and all religions, you do not talk ill of a dead person and more so a leader who led this country for 24 years. May God forgive them. I want to appeal to Kenyans that the late former President Moi did what he did for Kenya, and everybody can see it. We should not talk ill of him, especially when he cannot stand to defend himself. With those few remarks, I console my brothers; his children. Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud said that he worked for the late former President for 11 years. I came to know"
}