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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tobiko",
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    "content": "If you steal livestock, there is punishment for that. The punishment is completely prohibitive and a deterrence measure so that you do not repeat that kind of thing. If you murder someone, it is handled in a way that will make it impossible or difficult for someone else to repeat that kind of act. I wish we had conserved our traditional laws, including the unwritten ones. There should be a way to conserve these traditions because our children may not have a chance of getting to know that beautiful and rich side of our history. I was also suggesting that counties should start cultural events. Some have already started. I have seen Narok, Kajiado and Samburu counties have started cultural events. Those events will help bring back the face of the community that is getting lost. I support this Bill because it will go a long way in preserving our heritage. In fact, I have seen that we are slowly losing our traditional houses. I was brought up in a traditional Maasai home. Today, I tell my children a story because things have changed. Our ways of living have changed and those Maasai manyatas have gone. It is sad that we are losing them. There should be a way for us to retain them. When we visited Turkey sometime last year, I realised they still have their very old buildings. It is not that they are unable to change, but they do not want to lose buildings that have a family history. There are lot of things that they do not want to lose. I wish we can also hold with value and respect our history, culture and traditions. When we sometimes cross the border to go to the sides of Arusha, Tanzania, I feel bad and blame the colonialists for the artificial boundaries. Across the border, I see our brothers and community. From Arusha all the way to Ngorongoro, Moshi, Boma Ng’ombe, extending to Samburu, Narok and Kajiado counties was a whole country of our own. I am imagining we would have had a nation of our own. That does not to exclude any Kenyans. However, the artificial colonial boundaries should not have come to separate us and bring differences in nationalities. Today, we have Tanzanian brothers and I need a passport to go to Tanzania. We lost a lot because of the influence of the western cultures that came to distort our way of living. I support this Bill with all my energy and passion because I believe it will help us to secure and protect that which is valuable to us. We have also lost a lot of our heritage. We are told we need to patent. If you do not patent, you will find somebody using the Maasai mangik or traditional decorations and ornaments that we wear. They are used elsewhere, but you cannot claim they are yours because someone went ahead of you and patented it. By then, we did not know what patenting was all about. It is coming up now. We cannot lose what is ours in the name of patenting. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this Bill. Thank you very much."
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