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    "id": 1029339,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to contribute to this important Statement brought by the distinguished Senator for Vihiga. If you go to Berlin, on the High Street, you will be taken to some very small building called the Congo Conference Building where in 1896 Queen Victoria and Bismarck sat down to bisect Africa as personal possessions for some of their kings like King Leopold of Belgium. That is the scramble for Africa. In Berlin, they call it the Congo Conference Building. The significance of that building is because that is where, as other countries took possessions as countries, Congo was given to King Leopold as a personal possession by Queen Victoria. King Leopold owned it, annexing Rwanda and Burundi to become part of his personal possession. Madam Deputy Speaker, if you come to the Mulembe nation, particularly the Bukusu and the Tirikis where Sen. Khaniri comes from, our culture is so strong that if a man escapes circumcision and dies after the age of 20 years, the corpse is circumcised before burial. That is how they hold their culture and you have to respect it because that is our culture. If you look around Nairobi, the only monument you can be proud of that is still standing is Kipande House, opposite General Post Office (GPO), where the first kipande was given to an African in Nairobi. It was declared a monument and so nobody can ever destroy it. The other one is the old provincial officer’s office, which is now the Murumbi Museum. However, we have virtually destroyed everything. I understand that Sen. Faki wants to speak. I want to hear what he is going to say about the defacing of Fort Jesus. If you want to rehabilitate a monument, you give it a facade that looks exactly like what its original character was. You do not come with brick and motor and start reconstructing a monument, because then it does not become a monument. This is very important. When we had Mashujaa Day in Kisii the other day, the President mentioned and rightly so, the first resistance to ‘White’ rule in Kenya was in Webuye at Chetambe Hills. The people of Webuye resisted and shot three white men dead. The fort where they fought from is still there. Nobody has looked after it. People have scrambled and grabbed a bit of it. Those are some of the historical monuments that we need to keep, for example, the Crying Stone of Kakamega. The Elephant caves in Mt. Elgon are the only caves anywhere in the world where elephants go to breed. Elephants roam around, gestate and then go into the caves to deliver their calves. There is nowhere else in the world where you will find that. That is our heritage. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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