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    "id": 1323812,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Paul Nabuin",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion by the Departmental Committee on Sports and Culture, where I am a member. All the stakeholders who appeared before our Committee supported the ratification of this convention. You can imagine the number of artifacts that are found outside this country. From the records, more than 32,000 artifacts exist. Though this has taken long, I think Kenya is now prepared to store and protect artifacts if they are returned. A visit to Uhuru Gardens where some of those artifacts will be kept gives an impression that the country is prepared to keep the artifacts. Away from this, I want to believe that most of the artifacts that will be repatriated might come from Turkana. Given that Turkana is the cradle of mankind and with the records that are there, I believe most of them will come from there. A few years ago, there was excavation of a Turkana Boy and it became a global sensation. The site where this was excavated is next to a main road to Ethiopia, but a visitor passing by that area can never realise that, that area is where this Turkana Boy, a global sensation was excavated, exists. I am bringing this up because as much as we would ratify and get back the artifacts from outside the country, we should take advantage of what has become a global excitement in this country. The Turkana Boy site needs to be developed. It has been many years and the only thing you can see there is a monument. Local people call it an anthill. It is not possible to recognise that the site has some importance. Therefore, the department under which those artifacts once repatriated will lie, that is the State Department for Heritage and Culture should take advantage of this ratification and see to it that those artifacts become important and can attract tourists and generate revenue for this country. I support. Thank you."
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