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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": "assistance for them individually and their dependants. For the first time, this Bill creates a fund for our national heroes. Part IV of the Bill sets out the procedure, the mechanism of identification and declaration of a national hero. In this part of the Bill, it is intended that the procedure should have full public participation when identifying and when nominating heroes. This has been very cumbersome. In all the successive Governments and all the successive Parliaments our country did not have somebody somewhere who would sit and identify who became a national hero. This Bill at Part IV creates the procedure, a known and structured way of identifying who is a recipient, who becomes a national hero and the element of involving the public. Public participation is very key in our Constitution. The public will be invited to vote against any proposed nominee; the public, through this House will watch and in case---- Remember when the NARC Government came to power, a certain Ethiopian general was brought to this country. It was very shameful; some Members had brought into the country a fake Mau Mau general. He was given a State reception from the airport, and it took this country a month to confirm that those Members brought an Oromo from Ethiopian who could not believe why he was being given that State reception. Some of these Members, being my colleagues; the hon. Koigi Wa Wamwere must be listening to me. Never again will another fake Mau Mau general be brought either from South Sudan or from Ethiopia. This Bill is sending a warning to masqueraders who want to benefit from the taxpayers’ money by parading people who are not even citizens of our country. This Bill is even saying that the public will vote against a nominee who has been declared a national hero. Clause 25 of the Bill sets out the privileges to be accorded to a national hero. This includes financial assistance, where necessary to such a person. So Clause 25 talks about the privileges of a national hero and the limitation. It also provides the establishment of the Heroes Square by the council – the National Heroes Council that this Bill anticipates will be formed. The Bill provides that the honours awarded therein may be withdrawn by the council, if the council finds in its honest opinion that you are honoured as a national hero, but because of your misconduct you cannot be national hero and the heroism fails to be in tandem with your behaviour, both socially and politically. The Council has the powers to withdraw that honour. Also, if you are convicted of an offence, then you will lose the honour. Finally, the First Schedule sets out the criteria for identification, selection and documentation of heroes. The Second Schedule talks about the oath of office for members of the National Heroes Council, they must take an oath of office. The Third Schedule of the Bill provides for the conduct of the affairs of the council. The council members must have a code of conduct and the Fourth Schedule sets out the certificate to be awarded to a person declared to be a hero. This Bill, therefore, makes a provision and this provision is to award somebody a certificate as a hero. That certificate is shown in the Fourth schedule. The enactment of this Bill shall occasion additional expenditure of public funds. In a nutshell, these are the provisions of this Bill. I think it is coming at the right time. I will be very happy if the President assents to this Bill before 12th December 2013, so that as we celebrate50 years of jubilee as an independent country, then we know we 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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