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    "id": 1520526,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1520526/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilgoris, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Sunkuli",
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    "content": "should ask for a permit to know the origins of the Embu or Coastal dances. The person should research, write, publish and sell books about that culture, so that it is known in and outside Kenya. I will propose an amendment to remove seeking permission to research a particular culture from offences. There is never an excuse to outlaw research. It should be done. There should be no clearing house for research because we are giving authority to people who do not know particular cultures. This Bill, brings out the real issues concerning culture in Clause 9. Everything on cultural law has been given to the Cabinet Secretary, in consultation with the county governments. For example, the Maasai people practise the Maasai culture. They live in Narok, Kajiado and Tanzania. Generally, they are everywhere on the map if you want to include the Samburu and Njemps. I do not know why that jurisdiction has been given to county governments. We need a national policy because this should not be restricted to county governments. If we task a county assembly to make a law, does it become subsidiary legislation or the main law? Further public participation should have been conducted on this Bill, instead of saying that the Cabinet Secretary should make a law. There is need to have a national policy. In the Bill, the county government has been mandated to make a law in line with a national policy. However, there is no national policy on culture. It ought to have been incorporated in this law. A lot needs to be done to this Bill. We should keep building on it. I do not think enough public participation was done. It might have escaped all of us. We would have made suggestions on what to incorporate in this Bill. All communities also ought to have contributed during public participation on this Bill. I do not think they were considered. The Turkana people had their cultural day a few months ago. I do not know if anybody approached them and asked what they want to be incorporated in this Bill. Also, the Maa communities held their cultural festival at Archer's Post. Nobody asked them what needs to go into this Bill. The Kalenjin people also held their cultural festival in Mount Elgon and nobody approached them asking what they want in this Bill. The coastal region has a very rich culture. That is culture being practiced everywhere by all communities. All communities should be asked what they want to be incorporated into this Bill. Otherwise, a lot of work needs to be done. In honour of the Whip of the Majority Party who asked us to support this Bill, let us support it as a work-in-progress."
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