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    "id": 982464,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/982464/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to join you and my colleagues in condoling with the family of the late President Daniel Toroitich arap Moi. On my own behalf, on behalf of my family and the people of Kitui County, I bring our condolences to the family of Mzee Moi. My encounter with the former President was at several levels and some of them were very personal. In 2000 when the late President Moi decided that he wanted Uhuru Kenyatta to succeed him as the President, many Kenyans did not know he had started a process of putting young people in office who he thought would govern this country alongside Uhuru Kenyatta, if he were to be elected President. In that same year, he had faith and trust in me. At that time, I was 29 years old and he appointed me the Chairman of Ewaso Nyiro North Development Authority (ENNDA). Therefore, I was to chair a board comprising of six permanent secretaries and other senior Government officials. That created a bit of confusion because I was young and new in employment. The then Executive Chairman of Kenya Times Media Trust, where I was working, had appointed me the acting Managing Editor of Kenya Times . This was a situation where the Executive Chairman of Kenya Times was a presidential appointee and I had also been appointed by the President as the Chairman of a board. This created a bit of confusion, but it was resolved. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I remember him as a person who would let you do the job because he trusted you. In 1997, immediately after the general elections, my brother-in- law, the late Francis Nyenze, was appointed to the Cabinet by late President Moi. I remember he sent word that he wanted to see my father and the father of the late Nyenze at State House. He had a chat with them about the young man he had appointed as a Cabinet Minister. Being the last born of my family, I tagged along and I heard him talking to them. He told them that he had given this young man a job and he said it was a"
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