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    "id": 923607,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "how an African woman needs to appear like. They should know how a real Luhya, Kikuyu or Maasai woman needs to appear like. Culture is important and is part of our heritage. I would like to commend the Senator for coming up with this Bill, because it is something we need to inculcate in our youth. When museums are set up in the counties, it will be possible for each county to do an inventory of the artefacts of its culture, and ensure that all of them are preserved in the museums. Madam Temporary Speaker, coming up with museums in all counties will ensure that we are not only preserving our culture, but also making it a source of income, research and education. Talking about education, I am looking at a way in which we are impacting cultural knowledge to our children, so that they impact it also to their children and so on, and so forth. In the olden times, education was passed on from the grandmother to the next generations. That way, were able to get the core issues of our culture. When the National Museum and Heritage Act was enacted in 2006, the Constitution 2010 had not been promulgated. Therefore, cultural issues had not been devolved to the counties. Therefore, there is need for us to ensure that cultural issues are devolved to our counties. That way, counties can take it as their responsibility, to ensure that culture is passed on from one generation to another. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is need to align the National Museum and Heritage Act with the county governments. There is need for every county to have an office of a County Heritage Inspector. Counties should also have structures that are respected and conform to other structures so that eventually, people are able to respect the museums. Madam Temporary Speaker, Article 11 of our Constitution states clearly that we need to preserve our culture. There is, therefore, need to defend the Constitution by ensuring that we preserve our culture. We can do it by ensuring that we preserve the songs which were sung a long time ago. There are also some foods that are even medicinal. When we talk of mutere, tsiswa, tsisaga, tsinduma and all many other foods, they are healthy to eat. What is happening right now? People have abandoned the healthy foods and they have gone for fast foods, which cancerous. Therefore, Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to ensure that we have these museums in the counties so that our youth can get to know the kind of foods that were eaten in our communities. They can be places where universities can do research on traditional foods and medicines. We used to have mukombero---"
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