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    "id": 982549,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "who only drank Nyayo milk. He saw far and ensured that his protégées, disciples and political children are the ones who are running the country today. A giraffe would mean different things to different people. A blind man touching a giraffe by holding the neck would be impressed by the solidity of that neck, thinking that it is a tree trunk and it would convey stability. My recollection of the late former President Moi is akin to that impression of the neck of a giraffe – stability. I was born when Moi was President and he was nicknamed “Nyayo” when growing up. I went to school and we were the first 8-4-4 lot. If you ever have doubts on whether 8-4-4 succeeded, then you just need to use me as an example. If I am a disaster, then 8-4-4 is a disaster. If I am a success, then it is a success. We drunk Nyayo milk, we took Nyayo buses to school, and there was order. The young generation should know that there was a time in this country where public transport was orderly, when we had the DAF buses run by the National Youth Service (NYS). I went to Moi University, which was established as the second university in Kenya. I was privileged to be the last group that received the power to read and to do all that appertains to that degree from Chancellor Moi. That was the last duty that he held, as a Chancellor in the public universities, not to mention that as a student leader at the Moi University, we regularly met the late President when he came to the State Lodge in Eldoret. There are those who will also touch the giraffe and, being blind, they might touch its hind part. If you touch the hind part, it will kick you. The late former President Moi was not a saint. He was human; he was not an angel from Heaven, he was a representation of the Kenyan society and, indeed, there are moments when he kicked. The question is whether he kicked because he was pinched or he was pinched because he kicked. I will leave that to political scientists and historians to analyze his reign; whether the negativities that characterized a small part of his legacy were things that he did to survive or they are things that he did because it was deliberate. Finally, for those of us who now have these positions of power and influence, the late former President Moi started very humbly. Indeed, there are so many things that he did that many of us will never be able to do. There is only one thing that he never managed to do; he never became a Senator like us. How are we using the positions that have been entrusted to us? We have a responsibility to make sure that we leave institutions, the nation and communities stronger than we found them. I believe that the late former President Moi did his part and that he left Kenya better than he found it. When the first President died, there was a huge problem of ethnicity and inclusivity. There are those who believe that things got better during the late former President Moi’s regime. What is our role today, as a Senate? What is our role in unifying this country? What is our role in making sure that the corruption that we complained about during the time of Moi, the nepotism, tribalism and the cronyism that we complained about, we deal with it? We can never use the late former President Moi as an excuse for our failure. We can never use past regimes for under-performance. It is our"
}