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"speaker_name": "Tetu, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Geoffrey Wandeto",
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"content": "However, it is important to note that this is a trade that continues up to today. In this country, we still find ourselves loosing items that are of interest, going to foreign museums. This especially happened after we gained Independence. We have, for example, Koitalel arap Samoei. It is very well documented that his head is held somewhere in a foreign museum. It is important that I mention that this Convention provides for what we call restitution, where it states thus: “For objects, inventory and other items stolen from a museum, public or a religious monument or a similar institution, Article 7 provides the State parties should undertake appropriate measures to seize and return any cultural property that is stolen or imported”. It is, therefore, very important that the Government of the Republic of Kenya through the National Museums of Kenya and the relevant ministries begin appropriate action to get our known artefacts back, like the head of Koitalel. We are also told of the Turkana boy who is no longer in our museum. What we have here in our museum is a replica. How do we get some of those things back? Going forward, we have a lot of things that were associated with our liberation movement. Future generations of 50 to 100 years from today will need to know about it and also see the artefacts."
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