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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "the UK, those museums are always full. They make money from people just visiting their museums. I believe that the future of tourism in this country will have to either grow or migrate from the current tourist attraction, which is simply the white beaches at the coast and the obsession with the big five, which is okay. A leopard and an elephant are good things and so is a lion and so on and so forth. However, cultural tourism is a treasure that is going to earn this country billions of dollars never imagined before. I want to thank my brother, Sen. Murgor, for this great industry. Since the distinguished Senator has been organised enough to move us from national to county, allow me, for purposes of being understood well, to speak to the heritage of my community; the Abaluhya culture. Madam Temporary Speaker, just like your Kikuyu culture, we want to speak about these issues openly and on distinguished platforms like in this Senate for us to debunk the lie that when you are proud of being a Kikuyu or a Luhya, it is tribalism because it is not. Tribalism is a negative ethnicity. Positive ethnicity, like what is being provided for in this Bill, should be welcome by all Kenyans who want to break fresh ground for our economy. If you come to our five counties of the Luhya Nation, in Kitale there will be a museum, in Busia Town there will be a museum, in Bungoma Town there will be a museum, in Mbale Town there will be a museum, and of course the mother of all the counties there will be a museum in Kakamega Town. The Museum in Kakamega will allow our children and our visitors to know that just like all the communities of the world, we also have our heroes who are not limited to just the politicians. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would not mind being called a hero, but I know my grandfather, hayati Ikhunyalo wa Khalwale Isimbwa, Isimba wa Ashina Simba, was a greater hero than myself, yet, no record exists of this great man. He teamed up, with the other heroes in my community, mainly heros Lusaala and Mambere from Shinyalu. We had epic battles. It is unfortunate that heroism at that time used war as a yardstick to define a hero. These great heroes that I have mentioned are the ones who drove the pastoralist communities, the Maasai and the Kalenjins, out of the present-day Kakamega County. I know the distinguished Senator of Narok County, will be happy to know that until just the other day, we were having Maasais in Kakamega County."
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