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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "The list of the people who are going to be celebrated is just a pale picture of the people we are supposed to be celebrating. However, we cannot reverse that issue. This Bill will create a different scenerio of selecting those heroes. I am not saying that the people who have been selected are not heroes, but I am saying that among the people who we were supposed to see in that list are people who have made very serious contribution to this country. This Bill is going to cure that disease. It is going to cure that anomaly. The first thing that I will support in this Bill is the formation of the Council, which should deliberate on who is supposed to be a hero. Those are the people who should be investigating and researching who is fit to be a hero. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think this will take us away from the normal situation where a few people are just picked. They just go and sit in a hotel room and select a few individuals and even select themselves for recognition. I believe the Council is going to be non-partisan and pick the right people. We have got so many heroes and heroines. Like my friend has said, there are so many people who have died while fighting for the independence of this country; and some are not known. It is only a few people who are recognized to have fought for independence. We talk of Mau Mau as the only people who fought for independence. I remember, even in history, we had people like Koitelel arap Samoei who actually fought for the longest time. Perhaps, some people do not even recognize that he was fighting for the independence of this country; but he fought against intrusion by the colonialists. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we do not know where those people are; we are being told that their heads were taken abroad and they have not been returned. Those are the people we need to recognize. We also have some other heroes from the same family. Some of them were even buried in Nyeri and nobody knows where their graves are. Those are the people we need to dig into the history of this country and recognize because they are the people who actually made this country what it is. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have got so many heroes and heroines. We have heroes from several areas. I hope the Heroes Council will not only sit in Nairobi, but they will move from county to county to find out who are supposed to be recognized. I also support this Bill because of the forms of recognition. I have seen so many forms of recognition; especially the parts which nobody has talked about. There are so many areas which this particular Bill is talking about. We are talking about peace making and people who are actually known for peace-making methods. We are talking about statesmen, entrepreneurs, etcetera . Like my colleague has said, we have only been recognizing those people who contributed much in the political area. We have not been looking at those who do serious contribution in other areas. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think this Bill is going to come in handy. We have Nobel Laureates who are normally recognized in Norway. Those are people who are recognized in several fields; it can be in scientific, peace-making or political. It is time this Bill was passed so that it can introduce methods of recognizing heroes in this country. Therefore, we should not just make hasty decisions and recognize anybody because he was politically correct; or because of their contribution to the Government of the day. But this Bill will actually create a situation where our heroes who have made 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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