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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, as you have rightly put it, we are here on Thursday morning because of those Bills with constitutional timelines. I urge Members to be keen and also avail ourselves to beat the deadline we have already extended, which we cannot extend twice. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to Move that the Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions Bill 2015 be now read a Second Time. As you are aware, the Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions Bill 2015 is one of the legislations to be enacted by Parliament as required under Article 261 (1) of the Constitution. Therefore, this Bill was supposed to have been passed by 27th August this year. It went through the First Reading in the National Assembly on 19th August 2015. The National Assembly extended the time for its enactment. As presented before this House, this Bill seeks to provide a legal framework for the protection and promotion of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions and to give effect to Articles 11, 40(5) and 69(1)(c) of the Constitution. The people of Kenya have a diversity of very rich cultural heritage which include, among others, traditional literature, traditional arts and crafts, music, visual arts, ceremonies and traditional beliefs. Others are traditional architecture associated with particular sites as well as forms of traditional knowledge related to traditional medicines and traditional medical practices. Kenya also has a rich cultural heritage in agriculture, forest management and conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. This has been derived through the generation living in close contact with nature and transmitted through repeated practice, apprenticeship with elders and specialists of oral tradition. Those are some of the issues that the Bill tries to address in terms of traditional culture and traditional knowledge. 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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