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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ghati",
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        "legal_name": "Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": "is very proud to have. Those are the lines along which we should be talking about and not along ethnic lines. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, even as we are talking about heroes and heroines, this is an area we have done poorly as a country. As we talk about honouring our people, we need to ensure that these are the people we are honouring when they are still alive so that even as our children grow, they know that there are people who sacrificed their time, family, comfort and dignity for the freedom that the Kenyan people enjoy. That way, as our children grow, they will know that there were people before us who sacrificed their time, family comfort and dignity for the good that the Kenyan people enjoy today. I call upon the Government to make sure that the people who did good things for this country, the living heroes, are recognised. The men and women in the Kenya Defence Forces spend their days and nights guarding our borders. They have gone to fight in Somalia to ensure that our country is secure for our children. These are people we need to recognise as heroes and promote them. I sat here all this while because I wanted to support this good Bill. We want to compile a list of our heroes and heroines, so that their identities can be clearly known. We do not want a situation where pretenders are honoured as heroes or somebody says that so-and-so was a hero during my reign. We should clearly state that the people who fought for freedoms in this country like Hon. Raila Odinga, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, Hon. Paul Ngei and many others, are heroes. It should be known for a fact. It should not be left to the discretion of a reigning president to decide who was a freedom fighter at what point in time and who was not. With those remarks, I strongly support the Bill and call upon the Members to also support it."
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