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    "id": 982435,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we convey our condolences, we celebrate a man who did a lot of things in this country. I would just touch on a few things that have been mentioned by my colleagues. One is that we are celebrating an educationist par excellence; a man who expanded the university sector and the secondary school sector. In the secondary school sector, he in fact expanded the education of girls. We hear of Moi Girls High School, Lugulu, Moi Girls High School, Eldoret and many others. All these Moi Girls’ secondary schools were built to help girls expand their education. Mr. Speaker, Sir, before we adopted the 8-4-4 Programme, the A-Level education discriminated very much against girls, and the A-Level schools that admitted girls were less than 40 per cent. Out of that 40 per cent, less than 10 per cent were doing sciences. It is only until the Mackay Report came through that girls were able to choose the sciences. That is when we got our first female doctors. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am a proud product of the Moi system in terms of being in the education sector. He appointed me to be the Principal of Chepkoilel University Campus, and also a Deputy Vice Chancellor of Moi University, where he was the Chancellor par excellence. He always challenged the education sector not to think about themselves, but the country. I will never forget when he came and asked whether there are any Turkana graduates. We told him that two of them had graduated. He asked: “How come you have not employed them?” We said: “The first one attained First Class Honours.” He said: “Employ him now.” We employed him and he ended up being the first ambassador from Turkana. The same thing happened to another ambassador from Tana River, the first of a kind whom he dictated that we must start thinking of inclusivity. I really applaud President Moi for doing that. We will also remember and celebrate President Moi as an environmentalist. He hosted a lot of tree planting sessions, and I was part of this because I was the Head of the Department of Forestry in Moi University. In fact, he did a lot of this in the whole country. Earlier than that, he was the soil conservationist with momonyoko wa udongo . I remember us being rounded up to go to Machakos to participate in the soil conservation day when we were district soil conservation officers. In 1984 I was the District Soil Conservation Officer in Trans Nzoia. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are celebrating a man who was very keen in taking care of those who were marginalized in the society; women and the disabled in particular. In 1980, he considered the disabled in a very unique way. He held one harambee for the disabled that raised an amount of Kshs27 million. At that time, that Kshs27 million was about 10 times the current currency and it was used to build a building called Rehema One. There is also Rehema Two building in Westlands where the National Fund for the Disabled is collecting money; about Kshs300 million that they distribute to the disabled. He remembered women in a very unique way through empowerment of women. I remember a time when President Moi appointed six women to be ambassadors. This was the first time that such a thing had ever happened, and we hope that it will be emulated by others."
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