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    "id": 682980,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Injendi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Malulu Injendi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank my colleague for this Bill. I had a Motion on the same in 2014 but unfortunately it was overtaken by this Bill. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I second this Bill strongly because we know who President Kenyatta was to us and what he did for this country. We realise that majority of us do not know what is in that place where our founding father is sleeping. When you look at the current population in the country, over 70 per cent is below 40 years. The late President Kenyatta is an important person in our history but these people have no connection. When most of us are in town we hear he is just around here. I would support strongly that we open up this place for public viewing. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, time has come for us to be counted. For many years there has been clamour for us to open up this mausoleum to the public. These young people here would also have time to go and see who this particular person was. When I was in America, I got inspired. I was able to feel the founding President, George Washington. There is a mausoleum there and those of us who had time, walked there and felt Washington’s mausoleum. They have managed to also have his speeches there so that when you are at a particular point and want to listen to them, you just switch on a button. He was a legend to his country. You just switch the power on and you will see him come up to make his speech and you will really feel him. However, I am here and our late President is just there yet I cannot feel him. It is now time for us to open up this mausoleum so that we can feel him. I am a teacher by profession and as you teach theory, it is also important to teach practical aspects of it. The only way to teach our nation who this person is, is to open up the mausoleum and let our people see and feel the late former President. As it has been explained by the Mover and the seconder, most of us would be in a position to emulate the virtues, character and vision of our founding father, President Jomo Kenyatta. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is interesting that the first family are the only ones who visit that place year in, year out. The sitting President has access to this particular place yet I, who is a Kenyan, cannot. It defeats logic. It is now time for us to open this place to the public. When I came to Parliament in 2013, I thought I now had the privilege to access that place so easily, but when I went there I was denied entry. I was asked to talk to the Clerk of the National Assembly who also had to seek authority from elsewhere. If at my age I desired to visit that place, what about these young people and majority of Kenyans who are here in town? Finally we want to open the mausoleum so as to remove the myths that surround it currently. Some people keep on asking if we really have this person in this particular tomb. So, if we open it up to the public, then these kinds of myths would not be there anymore."
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