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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to join you in mourning President Moi. I can say so much about my relationship with baba Moi, but that will take away my five minutes which will not be fair. Many people know him as a President, but I want to focus on the other titles that he held dearly. He was a father, grandfather, great-grandfather and an uncle. My heartfelt condolence goes to his family, especially my party leader, Sen. Moi, who literally lived in Nairobi Hospital in the last three months taking care of his father. I stand to honour and celebrate the life of Mzee Moi. In your communication, you listed his children, but Mzee Moi had more children than that. Most of us consider him as our father. I am amazed at how he has touched our lives. We all have our personal stories regarding our relationship with him. In Islam we say that we all came from God and we will all return to God. Today, we thank God for the life of President Moi. He was not just given life, but he was also given time and leadership. He used the God given leadership skills to mould a stable country which he unified with the philosophy of ‘peace love and unity’. It is the same thing that we are now doing through the task force. Everybody who has stood here has said that President Moi was generous. We will remember his presidency. President Moi understood the institution of the presidency. He made presidency look so easy that I felt that I could be a president when I grow up. We will all miss his generosity. The long queue that goes all the way to Moi Avenue attests to that."
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