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    "id": 1520565,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1520565/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Irene Mayaka",
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    "content": "people go to pray. When people go to visit Manga Hills, the men dress in suits out of respect of the site. When they are there, the men pray for the community and their families. These are some of the things that should be protected and preserved so that our children can get to learn about them in future. Another thing that I like about the Bill is that it speaks about our languages. Most of our children cannot speak our local languages because of their schooling and because they were born of parents from different communities. Unless parents deliberately go out of their way to teach their children their ethnic language, their children will not speak it and yet, that is one of the things that we need to reserve. I want to speak about some clauses that have really stood out for me in the Bill. For example, Clause 9 of the Bill speaks of establishing royalties. That is very important. We do not want our cultures like the Maasai shuka and the sisal skirt that the Luos use to dance in their traditional dances to fade away just because they are not protected by royalties. We do not want our traditional alcohol, ebusa – and I know different communities call it by different names – to also disappear as well. Clause 10 speaks about compensation of peoples’ culture. I am very interested about this clause. I would like to see a situation where, if you go to a wedding and people are dancing to, for example, the obokano or ribina song and dance from the Gusii community, royalties are paid back to the Gusii community. We use ribina dance when we are inviting rains to our community. Clause 11 speaks about exports and imports of products. That is very interesting. Again, I will be biassed in terms of giving examples from my community, the Abagusi community. We are famously known for our soapstone culture. Different items are made out of soapstone. However, that is an art that is slowly disappearing. We now have a situation where it is individuals that are doing exports instead of communities so that the people out there will know that when they get a salt shaker, a tot glass or a mug for drinking made out of soapstone, it would have come from the Gusii community in Kenya. If we can have a way of ensuring that those objects of art are engraved and their royalties protected, it will be a fantastic thing. Clause 18 speaks of promotion of culture. I want to connect this clause with the"
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