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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "content": "still the pacesetters in technological development. However, in this part of the world, we are teaching our children to think that if you speak your ethnic language, you are primitive. That should not be it. There is a very good reason why the Almighty God divided us into several tribes. This is so that we have an identity we are proud of. Like I am proud of being an Omogusii. That is why I am proud of my name Okong’o Omogeni. You can link me to my ethnic group of Omogusii. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this Bill. From the onset, I want to say that I am one of those Kenyans who are very proud of their own heritage and culture. When we grew up, we used to go through an initiation and the whole community would be involved. When you were facing circumcision, the celebration was not for one family but for the entire village. You invite your neighbours, they come and celebrate, you take the traditional liquor for wazees and you are moved to the next age group. I therefore hope that this Bill will take us back to the drawing board so that we see when and where the rain started beating us and then we can be proud to preserve our heritage and culture. Coming to the museums, you will travel to other countries and you will be surprised with the queue you will find in a museum. However, when you go inside, there is nothing much. I am sure we could get more that we can preserve as a country than what you will get out there like having pictures of our legends. Who would not like to come to this country and see a photo of Kipchoge Keino put somewhere in a museum and pay money for it? Madam Temporary Speaker, I am told that the tourists we attract to this country is around two million, with our population of about 50 million. Countries in Asia that have nothing for people to see, like Japan, have about three million tourists in a month. I am also told that Rwanda is ahead of Kenya because they have mountain gorillas. Therefore, if we create museums in many of our counties, this will be one way of attracting tourists. We all know that tourism is one of our highest foreign earners for our country and we need to grow our tourism in order to support our economy. We are going to have a budget of Kshs4.2 trillion and if we are serious that that budget should be supported substantially by our local revenue, the way to go should be in tourism. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you go to Central Kenya, there is a lot that we can learn about the Mau Mau. Get us pictures of Dedan Kimathi, the wives of those people who fought for our independence and their weapons. Do we not have people in Central Kenya who kept rungus that were used to fight the Mzungu, or a spear that killed a"
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