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    "id": 380653,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Kuti",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Kuti",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, all I am trying to show is where the rains started beating us in terms of the values and virtues we now have in this country; this very negative direction emanates from our upbringing. Therefore, my solution is that I am urging the Government to organize, rethink and focus our attention to our children at birth. In the past, communities would celebrate, recognize and encourage these young people. They also made sure that they understood the history of their culture, the history of their people, the norms of their people, what is normal and what is abnormal, what is right and what is wrong and so on. All these were inculcated in the young people so that they are proud of the community they belong to. I want that to be moved from the community level to the national level where you stand up to be proud to be Kenyan. In Kenya right now 30 or 40 out of 100 people will tell you that; “tunavumilia kuwaWakenya”. It may sound like a joke but that is the death of a nation especially when citizens are not proud to belong to that nation. This is all from our upbringing but the seriousness of this is not even understood. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, all I am saying is that the Government must device a system where, let us say, at the end of the year, all children born at the same time, the President of this country should lead a celebration of this age group in December, so that they become one age group. So, all age groups should celebrate together in the counties because they were born at the same time and may have names to show the age groups. This celebration should be inculcated by a week of celebration to instill values, virtues, the history our country and other issues like; money is good but it is not everything. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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