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    "id": 600352,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/600352/?format=api",
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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": "This Bill gives us a way of protecting, preserving and transmitting our good values to the next generations. The Bill has also given a mandate to the county governments to look for a way of preserving culture and transmitting it to future generations. As one of my colleagues has just said, there are young people who go to school in other countries at a very early age and when they come back, they cannot even express themselves in their traditional languages. If we have a law that can preserve those cultures and we find a way of transmitting the cultures to our generations to come, then our young people can learn what our parents used to do. I also support this Bill because it creates a framework for preventing the exploitation of traditional knowledge and cultural expressions. There are people using our rich cultures to benefit themselves as individuals or as communities at the expense of other communities. Therefore, if this law is well implemented, it will give us a chance to, once again, become ourselves. A cultured person is a real person. It will give us a chance to, once again, protect and invest in our cultures. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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