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    "id": 1527546,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tobiko",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Let me also join the Senate Majority Leader to, first, welcome the students from the TUK and say that some of them are personally known to me. They are most welcome to watch the debates in this House, learn more and even claim some ownership of belonging to this House because later in the future, they will be the ones on this Floor. Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for the opportunity to contribute and to support the Heritage and Museums Bill (Senate Bills No.8 of 2023). One time I was honoured to be appointed a board member of the National Museums of Kenya (NMK). I learned a lot of things that go on at the NMK than just the conservation and storage of old artefacts and many other things from our heritage. There is also a lot of research that goes on at the NMK. You will find the most learned Kenyans, probably who have spent over 30 years on research. They are doing a lot of great things which may not have come out to the public to be known. At that time, the Chair of our board was Issa Timamy, the current Governor of Lamu County. Madam Temporary Speaker, various researches go on at the museum about diseases, plants, animals and so on. If we were to take time and know what goes on at our museum, we will appreciate the existence of the NMK. This Bill comes at the right time to address a number of issues that make the museums more valuable to Kenyans. Our devolved units now have a chance in participating, securing and conserving our heritage, traditions and cultural artefacts. This is because museums are part of the devolved functions. Additionally, I am proud to belong to a community that are naturally conservators. We have preserved our culture, traditions, dressing and cultural orientation. We have marketed this country called Kenya. We have given it a face and a name internationally. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is also good that for those communities that have held and conserved what is African, Kenyan and what has given us an identity, to have a way in which they can earn from it. They can earn royalties from what they have conserved over the years. I have seen in the Kikuyu community that you come from, beautiful dresses that most of the times you use for ‘ruracio’ and some of those cultural functions. This is part of our beautiful heritage and things that we should conserve. The Kambas’ still have their"
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