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"content": "Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to contribute in support of this Motion which was moved by a very well-versed, Sen. Dullo, from Isiolo. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am happy that, at least, this is coming from a lady who is in her 30s. She must have gone through the school drama society and won several awards for her to be where she is now in America. In Kenya, we have such talents in schools. These ladies and gentlemen perform very well. Much as we find students performing very well in drama, Science congress and music festivals, nothing happens after that, even after performing in State House. They are given maybe about Kshs50,000 by the Head of State or just a talk of encouragement. From there, nothing else happens. So, this is an eye-opener. If a lady like Ms. Lupita can go on her own to the United States, propel her talent and become number one in Oscar awards that is encouraging. There are very many other wasted talents, which otherwise the Government would have tapped. I am, therefore, appealing to the Ministry concerned, to make sure that those who win awards in drama festivals and other festivals, particularly the Sciences, are sponsored to even higher levels, so that we can even tap more talents and get more of the Lupita Nyong’os winning. Madam Temporary Speaker, there are many others who have been forgotten having done very well. Particularly in marathon, we have had quite a number of young people winning several marathon awards, even for five years consecutively. For example, Ngugi won the world marathon more than five times. There is also Lang’at. After we honour this lady, we should even recognize the other young men and women who have done Kenya proud. If we only concentrate in the Oscar award, many other awards might go to waste. That is why the Senate should go a step further and recognize those people who have done Kenya proud, particularly in marathon, football and so on. Madam Temporary Speaker, I also remember 1499 when Vasco Da Gama went around the Cape of Good Hope and managed to get to Malindi. He found an African Swahili man called Majid. For many reasons Majid has not even been recognized to have done Kenya proud. When he was found by Vasco Da Gama in 1499, the same Majid from Kenya, took him all the way to India to a town called Goa in 1502. He took three years to take Vasco Da Gama across the Indian Ocean. Since that time nobody even seems to care about what he did. This is a gentleman who did very well for Kenya. So, Kenya has been doing very well right from the 15th Century. Therefore, we can have a committee or even somebody to think about culture and those who have done very well, including, Munyao who went up Mt. Kenya to hoist the Kenyan flag during Independence time. These are heroes who have gone and we are not even remembering them. We only remember them once in a while. Even for this case, maybe after next year, Ms. Lupita Nyong’o will be forgotten. Why can we not come up with a monument or a structure which can be constructed in the name of past heroes who have done us proud in 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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