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    "id": 616915,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/616915/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anami",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Lisamula Silverse Anami",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. This is a very important Bill. Our natural resources are fundamental. They are the fundamental source for the formation of our culture, identity and aspirations. It is, therefore, very important that we develop legislation that does not only protect them, but also enhances their resourcefulness and the sense of sustaining our identity as a people. We should sustain their resourcefulness as fundamental providers of our tomorrow and future. I am very happy that we have this Bill, but it is like trimming the wings and branches of a tree without the interest of the trunk. This is the same thing which I have found with the Bill on protection of our traditional knowledge. Those are sub-sets of our fundamental resource. In this case, we are talking about the natural and cultural resources that we have in this country. Our Constitution recognises communities as custodians of our culture. It recognises communities as custodians of those natural resources. If we respect and uphold the policies and provisions in our Constitution, then we must, first and foremost, embrace those natural resources and their spectrum. We must embrace the interests and the knowledge that those communities have such resources. I come from a community of the Isukha people. How important is Kakamega Forest to them? How important Ikhongo Murwi is to them? How important is Omutere tree and Imburi yaOmutakha to them? All those can only be expressed in the indigenous language of those people. We need researchers--- Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am developing a point."
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