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    "id": 682977,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "id": 1987,
        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
        "slug": "francis-mwanzia-nyenze"
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    "content": "This Bill is very good and I am urging Members of the National Assembly to support it. If we do so, within a short time, we will see a lot of money being generated. Knowledge will be spread; people will know when Jomo Kenyatta was born, where he went to school, how he negotiated in 1945 for our independence, how the Mau Mau fought, and how the Kapenguria Six suffered in detention in Kapenguria. When you go to the developed countries, you will realize that their history has been conserved; a lot of money has been put to conserve those sites. I have been to the place where the Kapenguria Six were detained in Kapenguria. I clearly saw that the doors were falling off and the roof was leaking. The staff there who are meant to explain to visitors all about the struggle for independence look demotivated. I want all these things to be taken up in totality in this Bill so that as we open this mausoleum for public viewing we are able to see where Kenyatta and his colleagues were held. We should rehabilitate those areas. This is so that Kenyans learn about their forefathers and also love and respect them. If it were not for Jomo Kenyatta and those other freedom fighters we would not be enjoying today in this House. That should be a uniting point. We are the sons and daughters of the people who liberated us. Indeed, they had a lot of love for this country. They sacrificed their own lives for us. Let us not destroy that peace. Let us respect the sacrifice that they made on our behalf. Let us also show that we are worthy heirs and inheritors and that we can do better. Let us match what they did by showing good governance that is free of corruption. Let us have in place governance that reflects equal opportunity for all Kenyans wherever they are born whether it is Turkana, the Coast of Kenya, western Kenya or Rift Valley. Let us show love, because they preached love. Let us show togetherness and equitable distribution of jobs and resources to show that we love each other. Let us not engage in the balkanization of this country whereby I see myself first as a Kamba before I see myself as a Kenyan. We have to live above those tribal cocoons. We should see ourselves as Kenyans first. This Bill will bring us to that level."
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