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    "id": 600337,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/600337/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. H. K. Njuguna",
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        "legal_name": "Humphrey Kimani Njuguna",
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    "content": "traditions. Like what my colleagues have said, for instance the kiondo . I would like to correct my colleague who referred to it as shiondo . We call it kiondo in the Kikuyu community. At times, those practices are shared across the communities. The kiondo is a tradition that has been passed from generation to generation. Traditional knowledge is defined as a body of knowledge that is passed on from generation to generation. It is not a new discovery. It has contributed a lot to the knowledge that we have today. The problem with regard to the kiondo is that the Japanese have patented it as their own. It is an item that came from Kenya through the Kikuyu and Kamba communities. As at now, there is no commercial value. How do we preserve the knowledge that is passed on from generation to generation and owned by the “we” or the community? Looking at this knowledge in terms of the diversity, we have our 42 tribes. You can then see how rich this country is and why it is important that we take cognisance of this traditional knowledge and protect it. There is the commercial benefit which those communities are not enjoying. One example is Lake Bogoria. While going through the internet, I learnt that there was a detergent that was discovered in Lake Bogoria that fades jeans. There is a white man who came to Lake Bogoria, got the detergent and developed it for commercial use for purposes of fading jeans. The people who live around Lake Bogoria are no longer benefitting from that product. Other people are benefitting. If this law had been in place, we would have protected such knowledge and the community would be benefitting. Another example is what my colleagues are calling traditional practices such as the marriage ceremonies and traditional liquors like muratina . If this law had been in place, perhaps"
}