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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lesan",
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Rottich Lesan",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. First, I would like to associate myself with colleagues, the Senators, who have made very significant comments as regards the lady that we are talking about. Madam Temporary Speaker, I wish to congratulate this jewel of a girl, Ms. Lupita Nyong’o, for her achievements. It is clear that these achievements by this young girl have been attained by recognition of talents. It is important to note that there are very many people who have talents, but they have never recognized them and will never do so throughout their lives. It is great that this young girl actually recognized her talents and exploited them to the full. But on top of that, it is clear that she has had to work extremely hard to attain what she has attained in a very short period of her life. So, I want to take time to really congratulate this young girl for what she has done. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Oscars is now 86 years old. As we recognize talents like this, we, as leaders of this country, also need to start doing something. I am looking at 86 years from now as we grow up. I think it is important that we decide today that we also have an award to offer our children. When and which award it will be is what we decide today. As I was listening to the other Senators contribute, I found a name for the award that we can formulate and present to our children in the years to come; that is, the Lupita Award. I am sure we can start today to formulate and work out a way in which we can award excellent performers. We, as Kenyans, should start getting away from post-humous recognition of people who are talented. We wait until they are not there and we recognise their talents. It is important that we both recognise and appreciate talents when these people are still with us. Therefore, in this country, we can have no better role models that those who are living. It is important that we start recognizing the living legends when they are here so that they become real role models to our children. Lastly, I want to make a small comment about our education system. It is very important that although we occasionally deride our education system, there have been many instances in this country where our education system has produced world leaders. This is one of them. We have the late Prof. Wangari Maathai who grew out of our system. We should not rest on our laurels as we see these successes. We should use these successes to continue to continually critique our own education system and continue to improve and mould it so that we can have many Ms. Lupitas not far apart but close together. With those few remarks, I beg to support. 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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