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    "id": 1339564,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "(Kikuyu, UDA)]: I beg to move: THAT, the Public Holidays Act, Cap. 110 be amended in the schedule by — Deleting the expression “Utamaduni Day” and substituting therefor the expression “Huduma Day”. The import of this amendment is to delete what has been provided for in the Bill, which was to delete the expression “Utamaduni day” and substitute thereof, with “Huduma Day” and insert the following definitions… Hon. Temporary Chairman, if you also go to the Memorandum of the Bill, just for clarity, you will see that the Bill was proposing to amend the Public Holidays Act to provide that 10th October, which was yesterday, shall be known as Huduma Day and 26th December, shall be known as, Utamaduni Day. Yesterday, Kenyans celebrated Utamaduni Day and it was a very good and colourful day where many of our children, for those of us who have young children, were able to learn a lot about the various cultures in this country. We want to ensure that 10th October continues to be celebrated as Utamaduni Day and 26th December remains as a Boxing Day as it has been. Should anyone want to rename 26th December, probably they can do that at another time. For now, we want the enrichment of the diversity of our cultures to be celebrated. I want to plead with the Ministry of Gender, Culture, the Arts and Heritage to do better than they did yesterday. I must commend the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife for the work that they did yesterday to inform Kenyans and the world on how rich the diversity of our cultures is. We want to encourage them that, even next year, we hope to see a situation where our school calendar in the days preceding 10th October, our school children right from Early Childhood Development (ECDs) to our universities and colleges, are able to celebrate their cultural diversity. I would pray to see a situation where the week preceding 10th October, maybe from the 3rd to 9th October every year, children are encouraged to dress in their cultural dresses to their schools other than the normal school uniform. That way, children will be able to appreciate that they all come from rich cultural backgrounds, but they are together as Kenyans, so that we do not lose our culture. I, therefore, want to move that we delete the provisions that were in this Bill, so that we maintain 10th October as Utamaduni Day. As had been said, this was an inadvertent oversight by the Departmental Committee on Administration and Public Affairs. It should have been among the amendments that they were to propose, but the Chairman just called a few minutes ago. Thank you."
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