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    "id": 1527474,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "content": "When we have now devolved resources and decided to set up museums across this country, we still subject ourselves to that colonial mentality of taking what is so important to the bullfighter from Kakamega County to Nairobi City County. Why not send people from Nairobi City County to Kakamega County to go and see what is important there? I would like to persuade you to completely do away with that system of grading. Who gives the Cabinet Secretary the knowledge of my culture? He does not understand it. Who gives the County Executive Committee Member (CECM), who is a political appointee, the ability to be able to distinguish what is good and wrong? My community, the Maasai community, traded with traders from the Czech Republic who brought in beads. The beads that we wear were traded between the Maasai and traders from the Czech Republic from the European community. Until today, 99 per cent of all the beads which are sold in this country come from the Czech Republic. When you try to get them from a different country, there are challenges because there was a channel they passed through. We adopted them, but we have others which are very significant to us. The Pokot have their heritage. The Njemps or Ilchamus community, who are our sister tribe, have what they value. The Ateker community, which I belong to, have their heritage, which we have preserved for years. They include, the Maasai, Samburu, Karamojong, Pokot and people from Ethiopia and South Sudan. The only thing that I support with this Bill is that county governments must now set aside a percentage of their budget to set up museums that will attract people into those counties. The challenge we have at the moment is that because of this cosmopolitan nature, some of us are afraid that our own counties will be strangers. It is people who will be put in museums. I went to a place in Austria called Salzburg, where they have a beautiful museum. In that museum, they have a short African man who they say was a human they brought from South Africa many years ago. I do not want the Maasai to be put in the museum and say, “That lanky fellow is from the Maasai community, who used to be predominant in this county.”"
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