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"content": "My children are not laibons, they are bullfighters. So, in reference to heroes, we want to talk about our kingdom, the Wanga Kingdom in Kakamega. It is a well-established kingdom. These are things that will be on record. We want to talk about our musical artifacts. Not many Kenyans know that whether it is Alliance Girls High School, or Shimo la Tewa Boys High School, or it is whatever kind of school, when you go to traditional songs, the songs that win are Luhya songs, and those Luhya songs come from Kakamega County, the center of song and dance. Madam Temporary Speaker, it will therefore give us an opportunity, to preserve our musical artifacts, including the kind of plays that traditionally are practiced by my community, which include but not limited to, shinanda, isukuti, ilitungu, shiriri, endebeendebe, and itiolo . The children who the Senator of Narok was say they practice the TikTok culture from my community, have no idea what I am talking about. However, if we have this museum, then they will be properly socialized. Indeed, with this kind of museum in Kakamega County, I look forward to us preserving our traditional games, which include wrestling, shicholo, and indeed, bullfighting. Madam Temporary Speaker, I look forward to our social norms being properly documented and recorded in respect of how traditional weddings are practiced, the burial rites, and yes, the unique circumcision rites. As a doctor, I have practiced across the country, and just by seeing a patient, I can tell you if you are a Maasai or a Luhya, because of the way you are circumcised. Sometimes when I talk to the Maasai, and they tell me why they circumcise in that particular manner, I say “How scientific our community was, because it cut us for specific times of a man cohabiting with a wife, if she is pregnant or not.” Madam Temporary Speaker, allow me to speak to the benefits and returns on the investment that we are going to make in this Bill. This is a Bill which, because of unlocking the tourism potential, will speak to millions of jobs. As properly articulated by Sen. Olekina, you need tour guides, drivers, the hospitality industry that backs tourism, and these are the jobs that we are going to create. What is more, the returns that will accrue from the gate collections when these tourists pay. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to conclude by speaking to the issue of education and this Bill. I see nothing wrong whatsoever if in the six counties of the Kikuyu, for example, in the first formative years, children are taught culture as their syllabus, in the five counties of the Abaluhya, children in the first two years are taught their culture, language and then they expand as they grow to be taught bigger things. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am not too sure how old you are, but people of my age and below, were actually, as a compulsory requirement, taught vernacular in primary school - Primary One, Primary Two, and Primary Three. It was only after we were moving into Primary Four that they started teaching us a bit of Swahili and English. Since he is a younger person, he had to rely on his grandfather. However, for us, as it was very easy, because the first three years you had to be taught culture. We were being taught in"
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