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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1478813/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Kilgoris, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Sunkuli",
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    "content": " Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to discuss this Motion by my good friend Hon. KJ. I am a lover of museums. When I go to Washington, D.C., I always visit the Smithsonian Museum. It has all the types of museums: Museum of history, museum of science and all the other museums. When you look at the definition of a science museum, it is supposed to be a museum that collects and displays objects having scientific interests. People who run science museums must, first of all, have things to display; things that they show for themselves. Then they use the forum of the science museum for education. I support this Motion because I know the Mover is a visionary man who looks far away. In Kenya, this is a good idea. I do not know whether it is an idea whose time has come. Unfortunately for our country, we are not well known for scientific innovation. The things we are supposed to display must be as a result of our physics, chemistry, geology, technological information and so on. We are still developing those things. I agree that we need to use those museums as incubators towards the development of a good scientific environment in our country. We need to orient the minds of our young people to start thinking about science. I am a lawyer and my specialty is history and literature. Nowadays, those subjects are considered not to be as important as they were when we were in school. But to say the truth, I think science is acquiring a new meaning, especially technology. We require a place where we can dedicate ourselves to those things. If that museum becomes a reality, I hope that we do not make the same mistake that we are making with the national libraries. Recently, the country decided to devolve national libraries and make them the responsibility of the counties. Libraries will die there because that is not a priority of the counties. If you take those kinds of museums to the counties, they do not have the same vision as my friend Hon. KJ. Counties will bury the museum and forget about it. Let us begin big in the big towns of Kenya - in the City of Nairobi, in the City of Mombasa, in the City of Eldoret, in the City of Nakuru and in the City of Kisumu. If we begin in those big places, then young people will learn their science there, learn to store the information they have and learn to respect the fact that we learn from the past. Scientific knowledge in Kenya is what we need to move this country forward to where Korea is. Koreans can display how their original car looked like, and then inspire young people to make their own cars. We can also have our own Uhuru car in that museum. We can have the good old ERNH of the old East African Railway in that museum. We may have something to display, but we must use that as a springboard towards going forward to new innovations. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support."
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