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    "content": "Fame is one who merits. That is why we need to look at the law and ensure that we do not provide a blanket legal framework for people, as it is known in this country, to honour their girlfriends, wives and children. We must ensure that we only honour exceptional contribution to our communities. We are also providing that the county hall of fame that will be established under this Bill should be allowed to collect artifacts. As I mentioned last week, when Koitalel Samoei was killed by the British colonialists, they took some artifacts, but we managed to bring them back to Kenya 50 years later. However, more of those artifacts are still out there. We are giving the county hall of fame the right to accept artifacts. This will help this country to retrace our history and appreciate exceptional behaviour. Within the Kalenjin Community and more specifically in my county, we have the Talai Community. This consists of the leaders that supported and led the Nandi Community all through. When the colonialists came and wanted to conquer the community and take our land, they realized that the first thing to do is to strike these leaders. Many of them were arrested and an Act of Parliament called the Laibon Ordinance Act was passed to put this entire community into detention. Some of them were taken to Gwasi, others to Mfangano Island and some were subjected to harsh climatic weather conditions and many of them lost their lives in the process. In my county, there is a whole location in Nandi County where this Talai Clan was confined by the colonialists. For them to move out of that location, they had to obtain a pass from the District Commissioner (DC). Those are the inhumane conditions that some of the community leaders were subjected to. That is why we want a legal framework that will allow our county government to support and recognise the contribution that this Talai Community made in the development and leadership in the county. I know this is a story that is repeated across the 47 counties. We have various stories from various communities. We used to hear of Luanda Magere and Mekatilili wa Menza. We also used to hear of various community leaders in various counties. Many of them have never been recognized or honoured. This Bill gives us that opportunity to honour them. I hope that as the counties honour some of these heroes, they will provide some token of appreciation. If you have a leader or an individual who contributed exceptionally to the development and leadership of the county, and that person is living in abject poverty, it would still be prudent that the counties discuss among themselves and agree on how to provide a token of appreciation to lift these individuals from abject poverty. This will help avoid the kind of national shame that this country is facing when we look at the lives of people like Mzee Ojwang, who has made tremendous contribution in the art industry, but he has died miserable. We should provide a proper framework to enable our counties recognize and find a way of providing a small token to those individuals. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to urge Senators that as protectors of our counties, we are also the protectors of the heritage in the counties, the history of the county and so on. Therefore, let us enact this Bill that seeks to provide that platform to enable us recognise our heroes. Looking at the contribution of the first Senate, and I am 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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