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    "content": "many other things that he did in this Assembly, probably we would advise the people of Kakamega to name our airport after him; that is, Kakamega Martin Shikuku Airport. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Clause 6 of this Bill refers to the composition of the County Hall of Fame Selection Committee. I would like to suggest to the Mover of the Bill to consider amending this so that such an important task does not make the governor look like he is a big man seated in Kapsabet waiting for small people to bring him names. I suggest that the first member of this Committee be the governor himself who will serve as the Chairperson and his deputy to be the Senator of that particular county. These are the top leaders of a county. I also suggest that you introduce elected and nominated Members of Parliament. They are the top leaders and they know who in which ward or village is a hero or has made a certain achievement that requires to be recognized included. The elected leader is the one who will warn you early in the sitting of that committee of a joker who wants to bring in his own father for personal aggrandizement; that let my father’s name also be on the list. I think we should include them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Clause 11 attempts to give us the criteria upon which we can rely to pick heroes. I support it fully and I am so proud of you for this wave of thought. In the case of Vihiga County, if you were to talk about the heroes of Vihiga County, the father of soccer in East Africa was Joe Kadenge who is an aged old man of over 80years. He still lives in Nairobi as a taxi driver, trying to earn a living. Thanks to him having a very young wife, he has to take his children to school, but fortunately those children, old as he is, whenever they hit Nyayo Stadium, they always hit celebrity status in soccer. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, while talking about bravery and patriotism which you have identified, again takes me back to my county; Martin Shikuku was indeed brave and patriotic. It reminds me that to the people of Siaya; James Orengo is brave and a patriot. For those who cared to follow the new Kenya Television News (KTN) channel when they were running the history of the new liberation, the feature they kept on replaying on television footage was when Orengo was being arrested and when Timothy Njoya was being beaten outside Parliament because they were fighting for the removal of Section 2 A. It takes me to my place where a little boy called Jairus Ingosi is the boy who, when we locked the then President at Kakamega State House for four hours because we did not want his choice of his successor, he was shot straight in the chest outside the current Masinde Muliro University. It reminds me of my collegemate, Titus Adungosi. The people of Busia would want this hero who was poisoned in prison and who was a colleague of ours with whom we fought the second liberation, immortalized. On the issue of betterment of a county or the country, the people of Kiambu might want to remember Prof. Maina Mungai. This is the father of medicine in this country. He is the one who started the medical school at the then East African College in Nairobi. Medicine was only being taught in Makerere. The people of Busia County might want to 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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