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    "speaker_name": "South Mugirango, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Silvanus Osoro",
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    "content": "years or both. As we move to the Committee of the whole House stage, Hon. Members are invited to propose amendments to increase the penalties, if they consider them to be too lenient or reduce them if they consider them to be too retributive. Other offences provided for in the Bill are: (g) Failure to comply with the conditions for the registration of cultural property. (h) Undertaking research into cultural property without a permit. You cannot just go to a place to conduct cultural research without a permit. (i) Loaning cultural properties without a permit. (j) Damage to inventoried cultural property. (k) Wrongful possession of cultural property. As we move to the next stage, it is important for us to note that we will have to identify what can be termed as cultural property so that, you are not found with something you own and take pride in and yet, somebody says it is a cultural property. (l) Counterfeiting and misrepresentation of cultural property. (m) Use of images of cultural property without permission. (n) Providing false and misleading information under the Act. (o) Wilfully impeding or obstructing a person performing a function or exercising a power under the Act. Hon. Omboko Milemba should be very keen on the penalties for those offences, which include a fine not exceeding Ksh500,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or both. The House is again invited to propose amendments as we go to the Committee of the whole House. Some Members feel like the two-year prison term is very little for such offenders and should be increased to five years. As it is, the penalties are a two-year prison term, fines or both. I beg your pardon, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I had said that Part III is the final one in the Bill, but Part IV is actually the very final one. It runs from Clauses 30 to 33 and it gives the general provisions that are related to fees, charges and transitional matters. The Schedule to the Bill provides for national cultural institutions such as the Kenya Cultural Centre, National Libraries, the National Museums of Kenya and the Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service. Some of those institutions already exist, but they are not well marketed in the country. Over time, there has been a lot of changes and people are moving towards modern cultures, instead of maintaining their history. I had a chance to look at the Report of the Departmental Committee on Sports and Culture on its consideration of the Culture Bill. I am aware that the Committee will be proposing amendments during the Committee of the whole House. That is why I said that Members who intend to propose amendments are invited to do so during the Committee of the whole House. I agree with the proposed amendments by the Committee as they seek to bring better clarity to the Bill and to ensure that it does not conflict with the existing Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions Act, Cap 218A. In conclusion, I request Members to support the Bill because it will ensure that our culture, cultural property and heritage are embedded in all spheres of the national development agenda. I, therefore, beg to move and request the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs manenos to second."
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