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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jematiah Sergon",
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    "content": "a specific clan because of hereditary diseases. As a young girl, you were advised to only get married to a specific family or clan. We also used to have polygamy and took pride in it. Most Members in this House here are products of polygamy. Today, we are being told to shun our culture of polygamy and embrace homosexuality. It is wild thinking how Africans easily pick other peoples’ cultures and easily shun theirs. Our spiritually is another example. I would be Hindu if I was born in India. Probably. I would be a Christian if I was born in America. I would probably be a Muslim if I was born in Iraq or Syria. I am born in Africa. What is my religion? It is because Africans were not religious. They were a spiritual people. They believed in a deity that was not necessarily given a name. That is why, if you go to Marsabit, you will see we pray through the sun and the moon. The Islamic religion studies the moon every time Muslims go through the Ramadhan season. Even Africans had their artificial intelligence at that time. It would show them the moon had to behave in a particular way for them to know the times, and that there would be long periods without food. All that had its interpretations. Actually, the African culture is adored. As we speak today, every colonial master - be they British, French, German or Spanish - have African artefacts in their countries. I want us, as Kenya, to raid the British Museum, get our artefacts, and bring them back to Kenya. We are bringing the Culture Bill because we are going back to the roots. We are taking back our cultures with pride. We want to eat our food. Nowadays, you find young children in hospitals having diabetes. It is because of the foods that we have exposed ourselves to. Unlike back in the days, we eat junk food all the time. In my culture, because of scarcity of food, you could not take proteins like milk and eat meat at the same time. It was still a balanced diet. You could not eat much starch without vitamins. We also balanced it with natural foods like honey. Every household in Baringo believes honey is medicinal. We used to take honey in the mornings when we used to take care of our father's goats and cows. Honey was there all the time because it was nourishing. Many a times, when we took honey, we did not cough or get sick easily. It was almost a whole meal because taking honey meant you were most likely not going to have anything else the whole day. Otherwise, I categorically say that the Bill should be enhanced as it goes through the process. As he assents to the Bill, we ask the President to ensure that it includes a proper culture day where we properly dress in our cultural attire. We need to offer the Bill a sign of patriotism when it is signed. We need an Utamaduni Day like the Moi Day of old days. That will give us pride in our culture. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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