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    "id": 682986,
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    "text_counter": 192,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Oginga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 194,
        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
        "slug": "oburu-odinga"
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    "content": "Finally, the people who were saying that he should be buried at home prevailed and my father was buried at home. Initially, we also established a mausoleum. The mausoleum which was established was run by the family. It was our own initiative to make it a mausoleum and it took a very big resource from us. It drained us a lot. Now, the mausoleum has been taken over by the Government and we hope it will expand it. We have established a museum besides it which reflects more or less the Luo culture and the traditional things Luos used to use in war, cooking, preserving crops and also the heroes of the Luos. Somebody going into the museum, which is connected to the mausoleum, can read the whole history of the Luo culture and their struggle. That is another one which can also be a tourist attraction, but it is now in the hands of the Government. We hope that just as we want Mzee Jomo Kenyatta Mausoleum to be turned into some tourist attraction, this should be extended to Tom Mboya Mausoleum which is very beautiful, but was neglected for many years. We hope what we are doing to Mzee Kenyatta will be extended to some of his colleagues who they struggled together and whom they formed the Government at Independence like Tom Mboya, whose mausoleum has been taken over by the Government. We hope the Government will improve to make it more attractive for tourists in that area. The family of J.J. Nyagah has also built a mausoleum for him. I do not know whether the Government has taken over its management and the one for Paul Ngei. Those are people who struggled for Independence alongside Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. We hope that their mausoleums will also be taken over by the Government and also opened for public viewing so that they can become tourist attractions and earn money for our country. I do not want to contribute more to this but I feel that this is a very good initiative. We should have criteria for identifying our national heroes so that, instead of putting the burden of recognition of those heroes on their families by putting up museums which will relate them to the history of our country, the Government takes that initiative and does it on behalf of the families. With those remarks, I wish to support."
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