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    "id": 982456,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. On behalf of the people of Makueni County, I condole with the family of the late hon. Moi. Most people may not know that in 1991 Mzee Moi sent Hon. Wako to give Makueni, then a District, the independence from the stranglehold of Machakos and Kitui districts. That is how in 1992 Hon. Wako prepared the Districts and Provinces Act which was the basis of the 47 counties. Secondly, Mzee Moi and my father were absolutely close. I was so close to my father, but until he passed on, I was not aware that Moi gave him a trust to work for him in 1979. I only found that document signed in green after my father passed on. When my father defended President Moi during the time of Hon. Matiba and Hon. Kibaki, my father’s life was always under threat. Sometimes I think if it was not for Hon. Moi, my father would have been protected. He was threatened all the time but he defended him. Mr. Speaker, Sir, two years into my work as a lawyer, we ended up with the Goldenberg Inquiry where everybody accused President Moi of everything. The late President Moi and Hon. Gideon Moi were under siege and so was Moi’s family. They wanted to humiliate him and we defended him at that material time. Fourth, I remember very well that when I was in primary school, I was in charge of milk distribution and would keep the remaining packets. In 1988, there was a propaganda that Moi was giving out laced milk and all the children destroyed Nyayo milk, but I did not destroy mine. I kept my five packets and gave them to my mother. I would not be a Senator had Mzee Moi not nominated my father. I was unable to watch the handover of the sword of power from Mzee Moi to President Kibaki. It was a very humiliating experience. Mzee Moi stood alone and was humiliated, but he handed over power peacefully. The mantra of the moment was, ‘Yote"
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