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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank hon. Keynan very sincerely for bringing a Bill that can now structure the award of national honours. Providing the manner of awarding national honours is good, but also some of the people who carry these honours do not deserve them. Let us provide clear regulations on how to take away some of these honours and give them to Kenyans who deserve them. The regulations to also prescribe the privileges or benefits that shall be attached to the national honour are important. I love sports and my television watching is about sports. Some people might forget, but in 1984, I was doing my “A” Levels at the great Cardinal Otunga High School and at that time there were Olympics in Los Angeles. For the first time, it looked like Kenya would never get an Olympic medal, until one man called Julius Korir came to the scene. Today, Mr. Julius Korir with his wife – he was shown on television - is a sorry case. If we provide for prescribed privileges or benefits, let us give some of these privileges, which I think should also be in cash, backwards so that people like Julius Korir who brought so much joy to the country at a time we thought it was call gone can also be awarded. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also propose that hon. Keynan specifically lists some of the honours that heroes who are covered by this Bill can enjoy. Before the late Martin Shikuku passed on, I was very saddened to see him queuing in a bank and nobody knew what good this man did for the country. In some countries, people who carry national honours do not queue to pay bills or pay for public transport. This should be clearly stated. The problem with Kenya is that we do not respect people who have made this country great. That must change and I thank hon. Keynan. At the Committee stage, please, bring amendments that can make us know that if Kenya is respected today, it is by the unsung heroes and heroines of this country. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I second the Bill."
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