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    "id": 1520576,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": " I must thank you profusely for giving me this opportunity. Secondly, I have to say that this is a very laudable effort by the Departmental Committee on Sports and Culture under the leadership of Hon. Daniel Wanyama. We are discussing culture. In this context, we are actually going into the heart of a discussion for the fight of the soul of our people. It has been said before that if you want to disenfranchise individuals, deny them their mother tongue and take their father's name. The language people speak houses everything - call it beliefs, truths or identity. You deny one all that, once you deny one their mother tongue. An individual finds identity in their father's name. To that extent then, the Swahili are very right when they tell us mwacha mila ni mtumwa. The vessel we are calling culture carries a peoples’ identity, history, beliefs, and even their truth. We refer to our mother as “maitû” in the culture I come from. This name is two words if you extrapolate it. There is “ma” and “itû”. ‘Ma’ means the ‘truth’ while ‘itû’ means ‘ours’. Therefore, in essence, the name mother means “our truth”. That is why you find that the Kikuyu culture is unable to thrive in this patriarchal society. By its very formation, the Kikuyu culture was not supposed to be patriarchal. In fact, we all believe that we came from ‘Mûmbi’, the creator. Mûmbi is the only name humanity shares with God. As the Kikuyu - speaking people, it is the only word in our dictionary that man shares with God. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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