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    "content": "structures to act as hostels for students of a nearby technical training institute. This is why it is important to bring this now to the county government because there is no way the person sitting on Museum Hill would have known that there is an ancient civilization down there in a village called Waundo, or in any other part of the country. So, when this function is handed over to counties, we are hopeful that they will be able to go down, identify those sites and protect them. They will also encourage professional management, doing the excavations and making sure that we can get additional artifacts out of those sites. Madam Temporary Speaker, this Bill also speaks to monuments. My first experience to travel out of Africa was when I went to Portugal, a beautiful city called Lisbon, or Lisboa as they call it. Lisboa is famous for many things. It is famous for its pot wine, which is legendary. It is also famous for beautiful monuments. Everywhere I went, there was a monument of a war hero or a historical figure, which are kept well. They are well curated. The gardens around them are fresh. Adults and children go there play there. People go there to jog and exercise. Madam Temporary Speaker, look at the monuments that we have here. I cannot tell you any significant monument that we have even in Nairobi City that can act as an attractive destination for people. The ones we have here at Uhuru Park are celebrating a political regime that most Kenyans generally think did not deliver for them. Do we have monuments that speak to the history to the heritage of this nation? If we are going to devolve the museums to county governments, have we thought about the devolution of monuments? For example, are we pushing all the monuments here in Nairobi to Nairobi City County? Are there some that will be maintained by the NMK or the national Government? In some countries, they have appointed very high- ranking officers just to be in charge of monuments. I think in the UK, there is a royal appointee to take care of gardens and monuments because most of the monuments relate to members of the royal family. So, even in our country, monuments are supposed to tell the story of a nation, not the kind of shady things we saw in Eldoret when we were celebrating our record-breaking athletes. Then people went and crafted very absurd and ugly structures. You go to the West and things are made out of marble, fine granite or bronze. We have even seen gold-coated and gold-gilded monuments. You go outside the Buckingham Palace, the residence of His Majesty the King, the monuments shine, because they tell of the days when the sun rose and set on British territory. Of course, that is a history that is far gone. So, we need to invest in monuments. However, alongside a monument, we need to ensure that we have gardens and recreational parks. If you go to Jivanjee Gardens, I am not sure what you will find, but Jivanjee Gardens has now become a place for people just to discuss politics rather than to reflect on the history of this nation. As I conclude, there is a section in this Bill that I think should not even be there. That is a section on exports. Why would we even consider a situation where we need to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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