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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ali",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The issue of culture and heritage is very important. Even now the way things are, culture is supposed to be devolved. However, the museums and other cultural sites are being managed by the national Government. There are many problems in Wajir County. If you go there, you see where Italian and British soldiers fought during the First and Second World Wars. There are areas of old wells where people used to fetch water for many centuries, but now they are being taken over. Every year, things are going the wrong way. Madam Deputy Speaker, we need to take care of our cultures. The Somali community used to have a very good culture, but nobody follows them of late. I am supposed to be coming here with Kikoi and two white clothes the way Sen. Olekina said. Next time when Sen. Olekina comes in his traditional dress, I will also come with mine and I expect Sen, Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., to come with those Kamba dancing regalia. If we go to tradition, there are some good and bad parts. The truth is that tradition is always very good. I think that is why Africa has become where everybody scrambles for; where people come and harass us. It is where we feel others are superior to us because we have forgotten our culture and ways of life. We think that everything in Africa is bad and that is why people feel that Africa is going down the drain. Madam Deputy Speaker, the most important thing is that we feel we have to take care of our pride. In human beings, you have to be proud for you to succeed. If you decide to lie low, then people will land on you and you are going to suffer."
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