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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve)",
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    "content": "are yet to be born get to know about our history. We must ensure that we protect our heritage. We must ensure that we protect where we came from and let Kenyan children know that we come from somewhere. I am alive to the fact that many times people pick different cultures from abroad like the Western culture and they end up abandoning their own culture. If this Bill by Sen. (Dr.) Zani passes and becomes law, it will ensure that we protect our history. Even the young people will get to know our history. I remember when I was in Form Six, we would read about the history of different people like Napoleon Bonaparte, Catherine the Great and all that, but was it relevant? I am not sure how it helped me. Even if though I am a scholar, I am not certain that it really helped me. However, when we teach our children about the origin of our flag--- Even by just asking the question, “How did our flag originate?” This constitutes a question that you can ask graduates. They will fumble, do research and say where it originated from. There was a team of five people that came up with it. Tom Mboya made a deliberate effort to walk to President Jomo Kenyatta and explain to him that we have to be cautious so that we are one nation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is a heritage that we must safeguard and pass on verbally and in written form to our children so that they get to know their heritage. Sometimes our children lose on their culture. We have seen the traditional food that was prepared our parents, and grandparents. If you give it the modern Kenyan child, they will not eat it. Some of them will not even care. They want to eat pizza and sausages, but if you give them something like tsiswsa - white ants, which I was introduced to by my grandparents. I ate them. If you give them something like mrenda, they might not eat it. They want food that comes from the West. We must ensure that we protect our heritage. We must ensure that our children get to know what we value. If I may add something else, right now our children are missing out, especially those in urban areas. They will speak English from school and continue speaking English. I am sorry to say, but some Kenyan parents should know that they are harming their children. They feel good when children come back speaking English. They really encourage them and pay a lot of money for children to speak English. However, they miss out when it comes to their vernacular language. You will find that children are very fluent in English, but they have completely lost their mother tongues. Sometimes after Form Four, some of them are not able to speak in their mother tongue. If you speak to them in their mother tongue, they will reply in Kiswahili or English. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have something that we have to pass on for the sake or posterity. Our national flag and anthem need to be preserved. It is our mandate as parents. We should not take everything that comes from the West. We have what belongs to us and we must protect it by all means. All countries of the world have a national anthem and a national flag. There are only two countries that have two official national anthems, New Zealand and Denmark. We can protect our anthem, our heritage and ensure that our children get to know that the colours are symbolic from the colonial times. 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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