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    "id": 682953,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/682953/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Allow me to thank the people, who along the journey of making this Bill, have been very instrumental. I want to start by thanking the Speaker of the National Assembly because the ideation and the actualisation of this Bill has been simply because of a trip we made to China with the Speaker of this House. What we saw there motivated me to say we can do the same and generate revenue and teach our people about our culture, just like in China. I also want to thank the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare because it was very instrumental. Initially, the members of the Committee wanted to amend the Heroes Act to include President Kenyatta’s Mausoleum but because of the gravity of the matter and the person in question, they decided to give him an independent Bill, so that the history of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta is not easily forgotten. We want it to be available on its own. I also want to thank the National Museums of Kenya, under the leadership of my brother, Mr. Mzalendo Kibunja, for their input in turning the idea into actualisation of this Bill by enriching it. Today, we have a Bill that is almost three pages long while initially we had only one page. I sincerely want to thank them. The late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, the founding father of this nation, was the President of Kenya. He was the Prime Minister in 1963. He became the first President of Kenya in 1964. He ruled for 15 years and died in 1978, which is 39 years ago. I can bet that some Hon. Members sitting in this House today were not there 39 years ago. The Kenyan population is now about 45 million people and according to the statistics, about 35 million people are below the age of 39. It means they have no idea who this man was apart from what they read in history books. From psychology, we know that we remember what we see but we remember much more of what we normally interact with. These are the psychomotor skills."
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