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    "id": 600366,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Odanga",
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        "legal_name": "Geoffrey Makokha Odanga",
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    "content": "more of our plant species and ensuring that they are marketed. Most of those species have rich medicinal values and they need to be protected and promoted. Other things that need to be protected and promoted include artistic works like paintings, engravings and sculptures, among others.This will ensure that they get markets within and beyond Kenya. Kenya is a country that has a majority of Bantu people who are associated with pottery. Most of the Bantu people keep water in pots to cool instead of the refrigerators that we have today. They also preserve their foodstuffs for cooking. This was a very important article that was used by the Bantu people. We need to protect pottery because it is also used in the making of plates that we use for eating. We need to protect and promote all those items including the kiondos, so that they can promote our economy and attract tourism in this country. The fact that we are talking about patenting them is to ensure that no people can get them without the permission of the owners of that knowledge and expression. This is important and, for that matter, I would like to support this Bill. In traditional African societies, there was rite of passage from childhood to adulthood. This was a time when young men and women would be secluded. They were then taught what they were expected to do in their adult lives. That is how societies function. Today, we have abandoned all that and left our children to do things that they have not been taught and prepared for. We have left issues of culture to the school system which the curriculum does not address very well. Therefore, it is important that, as we talk about the traditional knowledge, cultural expression and cultural promotion, we should think of having the same in our school curriculum so that our children are taught about our values and how to promote them. In addition, we should also think of developing cultural centres in our counties and sub- counties. This requires funding. We are, therefore, calling on the Government to ensure that cultural centres are developed and kept if this Bill is passed."
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