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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. I want to thank Hon. Duale for bringing it up. It is something that we have been looking forward to. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in Kiswahili they say “ Mwacha mila ni mtumwa ”, meaning somebody who leaves his culture is a slave to anything. I want to agree with what every other speaker has said. First and foremost, I want to reckon that African culture was and is still very rich. Last year, I travelled to the far East and I was very impressed to see a caption on their local television on circumcision ceremony in western Kenya. It was about five minutes and it was so real. Out there, our culture is a tourist attraction. When I was the Managing Director of the Lake Basin Development Authority, we were talking with the Minister for Tourism to start a Western Kenya Tourist Circuit. One of the items in that bulletin was supposed to be the western cultural activities and one of them was circumcision. The western Kenya culture is very rich. However, if we do not pass this Bill, this will be forgotten. As you know, they do it once a year in western Kenya, as Hon. Wamalwa has said. The Kilgoris one will be done next year and it is dying off. This is traditional. I am proud to have gone through the same ceremony. My son who is about 20 years old, I wanted him to go through the same ceremony, but somehow I was not able to do that. That is part of what we should preserve in this country. The principal objective of this is to protect and promote cultural knowledge. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I travel as you do. You leave your country and go to another country and the food that you eat is not appealing. I went to Japan and I could not even enjoy their meal. I always looked around for nyama choma and I could not get it. For almost one- and-a-half weeks, I starved. Our cultural way of doing things like the way our mothers cooked our food should be preserved. There as a formula of cooking, for example, millet. They would 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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