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    "id": 923593,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "research on how various communities lived, and how our people have evolved from the past to the present age. Madam Temporary Speaker, museums can serve as reconciliation centres, if well maintained. They can also serve as meeting centres for our people to resolve their conflicts. Similarly, museums will play a very important role of creating employment opportunities for our youths. Currently, our country is experiencing a high rate of unemployment. Museums can, therefore, serve as employment centres. For example, in the United States of America (USA), museums have employed 1,850 workers. In addition, people can set up businesses in Museums; for example, hotels to serve food to visitors. In West Pokot County, for instance, we have the famous jail where the first President and his colleagues were detained. We can take our children there and learn how hard to it was to fight for the Independence in this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, there are very many valuable assets that can be preserved in museums. The Koitalel arap Samoei Museum, for example, is an institution that has been set up in Nandi County. Recently instruments used by him were shipped from the UK to Kenya, and they remind us of our past. Madam Temporary Speaker, Article 11(1) of the Constitution recognises culture as the foundation of the nation and the cumulative civilization of the Kenyan people and our nation. The same Article 11(3)(a) goes further to say that Parliament shall enact legislation – in this case a marked legislation – to ensure that communities receive compensation – or in this case, royalties – for the use of their cultures and cultural heritage. Many of our communities have had their materials used. For instance, I know of the Maasai regalia, which is used whenever we go abroad. Recently, one of my colleagues was travelling abroad for his children’s graduation and was asked to go there in Maasai regalia. In any case, those people should be recognised by being given some royalties for using their clothing or any other such material."
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