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"content": "many rivers that we have here like River Tana, Athi, Galana and Turkwel in Keiyo, I am sure will make use of the environment that this Bill is calling for. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is also important to note that here in Kenya, we come up with many things, but we do not implement them. For example, we have school music festivals, science congresses and the drama festivals. The shows will start and end when they are performed before the President in State House. We fail to notice that there are some very good artists, musicians and scientific innovations. If these innovations were to be taken a notch higher, they would propel this country to greater heights. Therefore, it is very important to preserve our culture, that is, music, concerts and traditions. Recently, there was a cultural competition in Paris in which Kenya took part. You could see a lot of cultures from around the world, including Africa. People would wish to come and see the Maasai Moran dance or the one from western Kenya, the Isikuti, that was awarded the most original dance. I am sure Europeans would admire the Isikuti dance to a point where they sat and even asked for a repeat just because it is nice and inspiring. This can earn our country foreign exchange. Needless to say, our cash crops are going down in terms of foreign exchange earners. We even have minerals which are yet to be discovered. Our exports are in their raw form. We have not reached a point we can export them as finished products because the value addition is very limited. It is not like the kind of exports from Finland, Switzerland and so on. That kind of limit now forces us to concentrate more in our culture, dances, innovations and scientific prowess. If we note something in a science congress forum, let it be taken to great heights. Let the Government be interested in getting to know why the traditional jiko has been recommended by the United Nations (UN).The winner, who hails from Kajiado County, has gone international and even won recognitions in the world. The jiko uses minimal fuel. These are some of the things that we are yet to know. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when we get some of these people and some of these things going up to and including even Paris, it means that we have something that we can export. That is what we are asking. If every county can go down and try to find out what the tradition has been, the culture and background of each of the counties, they can then come up with a cultural competitions, libraries and county museums. With that, I am sure that we will have many visitors coming to see what we have here in Kenya. We also have very many international sites that need to be recognised, but we seem not to know about them. Shungwaya, along the Coast, is the point where the Bantus dispersed from after coming from Angola. They then moved to the north along the coast and from there, they dispersed to Meru and others all the way to the north. From a place in Meru, they found themselves moving towards the east, forming the Kikuyus on Nyeri, Kiambu and so on. Not many people know about this dispersal point. It should, therefore, be treated as a shrine. It is a very important site worth visiting. All the roads should even lead to Shungwaya to go and see how Bantus of the 16th to 17th centuries migrated. That can give us background history of our country. Visit South Africa’s Cape Town to see Robben Island where Mandela was jailed. It has become a monumental site. Many people from different nationalities visit the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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