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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the Kenya Heroes Bill be now read a second time. This Bill is coming at a time when Kenya is celebrating 50 years since it was born. The main objective of this Bill, the Kenya Heroes Bill 2013, is to fundamentally develop an appropriate legal framework in order to do the following: One, to have a clear, effective, and an impartial system of identifying and honouring the national heroes of this country. This is in line with our national values as per the Constitution. This Bill defines our heroes as people or persons who, through selflessness, did sacrifice, or have contributed to the well being of the Kenyan communities, or to the Kenyan nation as a whole. The people that this Bill looks at are the Kenyans who contributed to the liberation struggle, those who contributed to the indigenous knowledge, those who contributed to our cultural values, to research, to statesmanship and those who have special achievements. Part I of the Bill provides the preliminary provisions. Under Clause 3 of this Bill it has provided that a person shall be considered a hero where the person has selflessly sacrificed to contribute to the welfare of our country. Part II of the Bill establishes the National Heroes Council, which will have the responsibility of administering the honours system. Never again in our country will we administer the honours system in an unstructured way. This Bill creates a system where accountability and transparency is upheld in terms of formulating policies with regard to how you identify a hero, how you select them and how you recommend qualified persons for declaration as heroes. There is the element at Part III of civic education, so that public participation and public discussion is upheld as per the Constitution in terms of how the National Heroes Council will manage this process. Part III of the Bill, has the financial provisions on the council, and it includes the establishment of the Heroes Fund at the national level. The fund will create, for the first time in the history of our country, that those who struggled for the attainment of our independence, for example, will have a fund that will cater for them and their spouses. This fund will be administered by a board of trustees appointed by the Cabinet Secretary in charge of this docket. The funds therein will basically be used to benefit our national heroes, who, as we speak today, are in need of financial The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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