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    "id": 1161786,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "We have travelled in many cities and we have seen how even the greatest cities maintain the traditional cultures. When you go to Washington DC and any other, you will always find a history museum that traces the history of a people wherever they are. That is very critical and that is what we are talking about. Of course, with what the President what he has done at Uhuru Gardens, we are going to see a celebration of our heroes and that is really critical. Just as Sen. Halake has said we must look back to look forward. I thank her. Our children must know where they have come from. We have to be grounded. Former President Obama when he was a Senator had to trace his roots. When you read his book, he felt the need to understand, “where do I come from? Who am I? He traced his roots back at home and that is the sense of grounding that every human being wishes for. If you have the opportunity to do it, you want to do it. So, for us as leaders, in our nation, we can help our children by giving them that history so that they know who they are and where they come from as they plan to move forward. I thank Senator Halake for giving us a little insight on her community, the Borana people. This is the beauty of celebrating each other’s diversity. You said some things that I did not know. I did not even know how wide your community spreads geographically. That is beautiful. I completely agree with Senator Halake when she says that whatever the Government is doing, they should continue making sure that harmful cultural practices are absolutely discouraged, fought and done away with. As we continue to welcome the new generation into the maturity and into leadership, we have to support ending of any harmful cultural practices just as what also Senator Kavindu Muthama has said. Senator Halake, you introduced the issue of cultural food, and Sen. Kavindu Muthama has also said it. Our very own Sen. Mugo is on record here talking about healthy eating and going back to the basics. You, know, she is a cancer survivor. She speaks to it and says that the medicine for cancer is to eat right. Let us go back to the basics. Let us stop eating processed foods. I know when you say that, you are attacking potential economic builders but the fact remains that our food is affecting us. Food and mental health go together. This is something that I spoke about today at the Centre for Multi-Party Democracy (CMPD). We said that food and mental health, absolutely go together. Some of the outreach programmes you would expect now from our County Executive Committees (CECs) of Agriculture in the counties would be outreach programmes telling people about the foods that are supposed to be eaten on a daily basis. Somehow, traditionally I remember the foods that our grandmother used to serve us when we visited her; the millet and the sorghum and everything. They have almost gone away. Now, you go and just find maize. Maize is not the healthiest thing to eat but somehow, it has become like the staple food. We have done away with other things that our grandmothers used to eat that were extremely healthy for us and for our mental wellness. That is something we must come back to as we celebrate our cultures and everything else. Sen. Kavindu brought up the issue of religion that plays a critical path and has its place. We were colonized and introduced to new religion. Now it is shaping us a people"
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