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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "We have been reading in books. The founder father died in 1978, but most of the young Kenyans, a bigger percentage, 60 to 70 per cent, of the young people who were born after 1978 might not be having the knowledge of the person that we are talking about. It is true as Injendi was saying, I have been in this Parliament for the last four years and I have not had an opportunity to go inside the mausoleum. Most of the time when I am passing there with my children, they ask why the place is guarded and whether it is a kaburi or something else. I told them that the founding father was buried there. It was hard for me to explain what it is. With this kind of a Bill, those children will have an opportunity to walk into that place and learn about the history. Of course, those who were jailed with him would also be a history for somebody. As a member of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security, we visited Kapenguria where the six were locked up. It is a historical place. You could see the urge of even parliamentarians to take a photo in those cubicles. They were asking so many questions about what happened, how they were locked in and where they were going for their food. It is important, particularly, just to learn about who this founding father was. It is said he was a Christian and had the name Johnstone. Of course, the Luo community like naming their children after very prominent people. Once it is done, they can know that Johnstone was a Christian name given to him. Nobody knows Mzee Jomo Kenyatta by the name Johnstone Kamau Ngengi. Those are important things. He was a statesman and a nationalist. From history, we have always been fighting about this Prime Minister position. He was the first Prime Minister of this country for only one year from 1963 to 1964, and became the President in 1964. He never started as the President. He started as a Prime Minister and after one year, he moved and was elected the President of the Republic."
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