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    "id": 696056,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Muia",
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        "legal_name": "Regina Nthambi Muia",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support this Bill by Hon. Muthomi Njuki. I support Members who spoke before me supporting that the mausoleum should be open to the public. I disagree with one of the Members who claimed that he is not very sure whether the body of our founding father is lying at the mausoleum. Surely, you do not expect to go to the mausoleum and see a dead body. For people who have been to a place like Israel, you go there to read history about Jesus Christ, how he was crucified, where he was laid and buried. You are only taken through some areas and you are told that after he was crucified, his body was removed. It was placed somewhere. You see a table with a white cloth and you see another place where he was kept for some days and where he was buried, but his body is not there. The issue of heroes is very important. For the few of us who have been to China, we have seen a list of so many heroes. You read their history though you cannot remember some of them. When you come to Kenya, Kenyatta was arrested together with many other Kenyans. Some of them have died very poor like Paul Ngei and you know his story. He did not deserve to be a hero because he died a poor person. There is somebody like Kisoi Munyao who raised the flag at a time when there were no roads. You can imagine if Mt. Kenya would be like that today. That old man, may his soul rest in eternal life, is forgotten. He is a nobody. Nobody has dared to go through that place and Kisoi Munyao is forgotten. These people died very poor. We should change our mentality in this country. We should not talk of heroes yet we have nothing to show for them. Most of these families are suffering. You cannot even identify a son of Paul Ngei, Kaggia or Kisoi Munyao even after what they did for this country and the sacrifices they made. They died for this country, but their families are still suffering to date. If you look at the mausoleum next to Uhuru Park, it is just a house with a picture. If you go inside, there is nothing. So, you send students from schools to see and learn. What do they learn? There is nothing. There is no picture or anything. There is The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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