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    "content": "I am sure that even when you read those mercurial stories in the books of Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Chinua Achebe’s books, some of them are stories told from age to age until they reach a person who is well educated with the capacity to put it in writing. I want us to benefit and not destroy our “Africanness” which is caring, loving and communal - and to hold on to the people that we have lived with and still continue to live with. If you are truly African and come from a caring community, when you go home, you will see your old aunty, about 80 years, holding a stick and slowly striding into your home. She will come there and say, “Son of my brother, I have just come to see, greet and feel you.” She will not even ask you for anything. However, if she is in a borstal home, where will she find time to come and see you? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, whenever we go to funerals where we have lost senior citizens, we say that we are not mourning, but celebrating the life we lived with those great people. Everybody stands up and recites how they benefitted from the wisdom of the old persons. Sen. (Prof.) Lesan, how would you imagine your three year old grandson going to look for you in a borstal home? He would need to pass through a gate where there are watchmen and then fill out forms. By the time they realize that they had a grandfather, they are 18 years old. There is no bond, affinity or even the feeling that somebody like a grandfather exists in life. It is ingenious to bring a Bill and I salute you for that Senator, you must have put in a lot of work. However, sometimes you can put a lot of work into nothing when you bring a Bill that is not going to help. We have Mji wa Huruma in Kasarani where our distinguished---"
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