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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support this Bill. I thank you for giving me the opportunity to do so. I have said it in this House before, and I want to say it again, that sometimes the existence of laws is nothing but an indication of perversity of nobility. Why do I say so? We do not need this Bill to recognise the true heroes of this country. I remember that as a young man I had no interest in politics at the time when the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga died. The debate that gripped the nation at that time was whether or not he should be given a state burial. I got shocked. This was a man who stood up at a time when nobody could speak to the colonialists and said: “No uhuru without Kenyatta”. Even his fellow Africans vilified him. Was it really necessary to question whether he deserved a hero’s burial or not? The same debate arose when Bildad Kaggia died. We were showering him with praises."
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