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    "id": 600401,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tong’i",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2611,
        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": "respected and how our cultural days were conducted. Mzee Nyachae had one every year and I would wish to go back and hold the same. Through that, we pass values to our children. You do not read these things in books. The way we did our circumcision was something I treasure today, painful as it was. Indeed, it is one of the best things that ever happened to us who had an opportunity to undergo it. It made a huge difference between being a small boy and believing in oneself and doing what an adult is supposed to do. Those values have served the community and the nation well. We should have a way of embracing them by probably setting up a museum in every county to cover and protect those values for posterity. If we do that our children will know how we lived and how we got to where we are today. If we have lost our culture they will also know how we lost it and how we should repair and go back to where we should be. In the African tradition, there was no divorce. In my community, divorce was never given room. Today, we have many issues. Culture had a way of resolving disputes between a husband and wife. Culture had a way of resolving it in an amicable way to ensure the bigger picture of the family, community and the nation was respected in the process. I support this Bill. It has come in handy and we need to support it. As a way of ensuring we are going to cement and weld this Bill to the community, I will soon invite most of you to attend my cultural day which will be conducted in Nyanturago so that you can appreciate the Kisii culture and dispense with what the media has passed on over the years that we lynch witches and old mamas. Have you ever asked yourself why those witches are only mamas and very old ones for that matter? Why can they not be men? If it is culture, then men should also be witches and the burning should be across the board. We should use this Bill to ensure our people are more educated and respect others regardless of their social status in the society. I support this Bill because I believe it is the right way to go. I would like to urge Members to grab the Seventh Day Adventist book about the value of the foods we are supposed to eat. It is going to make a difference in the way we handle and perceive issues."
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