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    "id": 1161774,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to support Sen. Kasanga on her Motion on fast-tracking cultural development in counties. I would like to congratulate her because she has always come up with very useful pieces of legislation that will definitely put her on the map of this 12th Parliament as having brought great change to our country in her tenure. The issues of culture cannot be gainsaid given that culture gives us our identity, language and future opportunities as well. As Sen. Sakaja has said, culture is not static. It is growing, unfolding right before our eyes. We must make sure we look back to look forward. How do we do that? By ensuring we preserve where we came from so then it is clear where we are going with our culture. We should be anchored in our identity, language and in ourselves as a people because our pride comes from having an identity and having a history of which we are proud of. How can we be proud of a history that does not exist, has not been preserved for our children? We are not saying that the Government should be teaching our children language, or that it should take the whole responsibility because we as parents and Kenyans must also take our rightful role in ensuring that our culture is preserved. We cannot put everything on the Government. I like what the prayer for this Motion is. It is giving the Government to do what it is supposed to do. The rest we will do as parents, mothers and fathers; to formulate cultural development policies and initiatives to inculcate stronger community values, safeguard Kenya’s heritage, recognize local heroes, promote socio-cultural opportunities in the counties and formulate strategies to create an enabling environment for protection and promotion of diversity of cultural expressions in our counties. That is not too much to ask. It is exactly and precisely what governments should do: Lay the right frameworks within which we as Kenyans can then exercise our culture and preserve it for ourselves or use it as a point of reference or point of teaching our children and also use it perhaps in our education system."
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