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    "id": 1161726,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "Even before the National government does anything, the counties should be siezed of this. We should begin to see some action in that sense that is happening. I would like to celebrate one of the heroes of the Akamba people. The Akamba people are known to have been long distance walkers. They used to walk. It was written by Dr. Ludwig Krapf, how, one time when he was in the Congo, he met these interesting people who told him that they had come from the East and they had walked for three moons, meaning three months. That is how they used to measure the days back then. They had Congo to collect the earth. They told him they used the earth to make arrows. The Kamba people were smelters. They used to go and get the iron ore and come back home to make arrows. The Kamba people were very good at archery. That was one of our forte . Arching was one of the greatest things that we used to do in the older ages and how I wish we could have an archery club now, somewhere in Ukambani, because have it in our blood. These are the things that we are talking about. If our people knew more about this, they would know how to do these things. One time, Dr Krapf according to his book, came back to East Africa to look for these people who had come from the East. When he landed in Mombasa he looked for them and he was told that those people came within certain months after harvesting to do trade. He went and came back again so that he could meet with these people. When he met them, he met with Dr. Kivoi wa Mwendwa. This was one of our Chiefs. He had led a caravan to Mombasa where he met with Dr.Ludwig Krapf. He told Dr Ludwig Krapf said, “I know you people, I have met you in the Congo and I know you like seeing new things.” He told them that there was a place where there are hills that have something white on top and that white thing becomes water. He was trying to describe snow. Ludwig Krapf could not believe that there could be snow in the tropics. He therefore decided to travel and see the inside of the country, led by Chief Kivoi. Those days, they would use the routes of Kitui. They would go through Nzambani, if you know Kitui very well. When they get to a certain spot, you have the views of what we currently call Mount Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro. He pointed at the hills and gave Dr. Ludwig Krapf and said that one there is called Kinyaa in Kikamba . They were trying to describe an ostrich which has a white little patch on top of their head. That is what they termed Mount Kenya as. On the other side, Kiima kya Nzalu, which is the current day Mount Kilimanjaro."
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