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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "the national anthems of East African countries, but if you look at the national anthems of the world, we all believe in God as the higher authority. In Kenya, we begin the anthem with “Oh God.” In Tanzania, they start with God. They say, “God bless Africa and God bless Tanzania”. the Ugandan national anthem begins with “Oh Uganda,” but they still bring in God because the African nature is that we know that God is sovereign, and then we have leadership under God. I think very few people like Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri and myself have sung the anthem of the colonial masters we had; the British national anthem. That national anthem begins with God. It says, “God bless the Queen.” The American national anthem is a war anthem. It begins with, “Say can you see,” and talks about all sorts of things. I will give an example of a constituency called Kacheliba Constituency in my own county, which I represented for many years. The reason I am bringing up all these things is in 1969, something like this came to the Parliament of Kenya. It reminded us that some things do expire. If you do not catch it, you will not be able to change it in good time. In 1969, a new Member of Parliament (MP), Hon. Francis Polosi Loile Lotodo was elected. He brought to the attention of this country that Kacheliba, which was called Karasuk at that time, was being administered by Uganda and the term of administration was ending. He brought up the issue that we had to start preparing to receive that part of the country back to Kenya. That is where I was born and it is where I represented for many years. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in 1970, Kacheliba was reverted back to Kenya and it was known as Kenya Mpya. I am a beneficiary of that kind of foresight and consciousness that Sen. (Dr.) Zani brings us today. The story was interesting. I can say a bit of it. In 1929, the British thought that they could sort out the issue of the Pokot- Karamojong’ conflict by bringing all the Pokot from that region to be administered from Uganda so that they might be assimilated into the Karamojong or that the Ugandan Government could control the two communicates together. From 1929 to 1931, it was an experimental period. In the two years that they watched and observed, they said that it looked like it could work. Therefore, in 1931, they signed full agreement in which my constituency was given away to Uganda for administration for 40 years. The 40 years expired in 1970, and that that is when Hon. Lotodo raised the issue and we were brought back to Kenya. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, can I tell you something? Idi Amin took over Uganda in January 1971. You can imagine that if we had not come back to Kenya in July of 1970, we would still be administered by Uganda, because Idi Amin would not have allowed us to come out of there. That is the status of such Bills, and I thought that this is a patriotic way to think about them. My congratulations go to Sen. (Dr.) Zani because our national anthems and our emblems--- In this contribution, I propose that having dealt with the national flag, the national anthem, national names and places, we should cascade this to our counties. The flags of the counties need to become part and parcel of our national flag. It should be important enough for us to have the two flags since we have already adopted a two-system government. I agree with Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. who proposes that we should fly two flags outside the offices of Senators. There should be the national flag on one side and your The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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