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    "id": 982450,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Linturi",
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        "legal_name": "Franklin Mithika Linturi",
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    "content": "My history and interaction with the late hon. Moi dates back to 2002. This is when we were busy as young people trying to join the political arena. Most people did not know that hon. Moi had decided that he would pick President Uhuru Kenyatta as a candidate to succeed him. I was an active young man during that time. When we did the Kenya African National Union (KANU) nominations, I had beaten the former Minister for Internal Security who used to be my Member of Parliament (MP). I think there were two or three Ministers in his Government who--- There was Mheshimiwa Kalweo and I was called to State House. We sat down for a long meeting because the former President, hon. Moi, thought that hon. Uhuru was going to win the elections. He wanted some old people who would guide him and he thought Hon. Kalweo was one of them. He convinced us and some other young men to join Uhuru’s campaign so that he becomes the President. On 20th June, 2002, we went to Gatundu to do a harambee for the Gatundu South Bursary Fund. At that time, we were trying to popularize Mheshimiwa Uhuru Kenyatta. That is my history with the President Moi from that time. We lost the election in 2002, but met him again later in 2007 when President Kibaki’s Party of National Unity (PNU) won the elections again. Just like it was before, I had been rigged out. For that matter, I could not run on a PNU ticket that was so popular in the Gikuyu, Embu, Meru Association (GEMA) region. I looked quite desperate and did not know whether I would run again. This time around a close friend of mine, the late Hon. Barng’etuny – may God rest him in peace – took me to late President Moi. I reminded the late President of a number of events we were together and he remembered me. That is the time I understood the kind of man he was. Hon. Moi was full of sympathy. He looked at me and told me:"
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