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    "id": 600351,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Seneta",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute to this very important Bill. From the outset, I support the Bill which is very timely. We have a very rich culture and diversity of traditions that have made us live proudly for a long time. For a very long time, this has organized our communities. This Bill creates a framework which will enable both the county governments and the national Government to promote and preserve our culture. The Bill has given a mandate to county governments to register, document and come up with a proper system of promoting and preserving culture. Some communities in this country have very rich cultures that have not benefited them because they have been exploited by many people. The Maasai has a very rich culture and many people use artifacts of Maasai women. Big hotels in this country and even outside use artifacts of Maasai women or morans on washroom doors. In real sense, the local communities do not benefit from their cultures and cultural expressions. This Bill seeks to protect the exploitation of those cultures. This Bill has also given the national Government the mandate to preserve and conserve this very rich resource. Culture, on its own, is a resource. There are people in this country who are talented in terms of traditional songs, poetry and proverbs, and who earn nothing out of this. This has been exploited by outsiders. We also have very rich structures in our traditional systems. A long time ago, we used to have very proper traditional judicial systems. People never went to court for minor issues like divorce. In the Maasai culture, we never had issues of divorce because we had a traditional judicial system that settled such issues. We also had our values which prevented people from the kind of decay that we are seeing today. Today, people are killing each other in families. Women are being killed in families. We have also seen young people killing their fellow young people in the family structure. Our traditions have been eroded and not preserved. 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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