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    "id": 1520574,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1520574/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "As you take over the seat, note that we should have a full House during Third Reading of this Bill. Let us look at areas where we can give some inputs and see if the culture of this country can improve through a specific Ministry. Do not just put up a Ministry in charge of culture and social services and sports or whatever it is. It should be able to take up some of the roles we are talking about, and see what it can do. Last but not the least, county governments and the central Government of this country should work in collaboration to maintain some cultural centres. Some exist in certain areas, but they are neglected. County governments should revive them for the benefit of our future so that we have a good historical background. What will our grandchildren write about Kenya? It would be nothing. We want cultural centres revived and protected through the Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage. County governments should replicate to have similar ministries or departments. That will maintain those areas because it is important that we keep those people in place as soon as it is possible. Once we are through with the Bill... It says that anybody caught destroying any of those cultures should be punished with fines. You paid a lot of money to visit the Bomas of Kenya. The Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage got the income. Similarly, anybody interfering with any of those cultural centres should be fined. Those days, people were fined through wazeewa mtaa . Communities can come up with whatever method. Again, we have to revive that for the benefit of our country. I take this opportunity to thank the Leader of the Majority Party for coming up with this Bill. It is very timely. I hope and pray that we will support it to the last stage when His Excellency the President puts a consent on the same and have it implemented immediately. I thank you and support the Bill."
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