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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mbui",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to contribute to the Bill. I want to say it is important to know our history. It helps us to get in touch with our roots. This Bill is about knowing where we have come from and where we are. That will guide us in making decisions on where we want to be in future. I am impressed from what I have heard in this debate. People have spoken positively about traditional issues. I am happy Hon. Tong’i has just told us that there is a traditional healer who can compete with Dr. Ben Carson of the US in performing brain surgery; that is quite exciting. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, traditional cultures are those beliefs, opinions, values and attitudes that bind a community together. It is very important that all of us embrace our traditional values, beliefs and opinions. Unfortunately, I have noted that modernisation is actually an enemy of our cultures and it need not be because these things can coexist. There is a part for modernisation and there are those things that we need to hold very dear that are traditional. I want to point out some of the very positive traditional cultural practices that have existed since time immemorial that we need to understand so that we can support this Bill and entrench them in our laws. The first one is that I believe in the days when people embraced tradition because there was always a sense of belonging. This meant that from the time you were born to the time you went through the initiation stages, to the time you married up to old age, you knew exactly what 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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