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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Bill. Sen. Murkomen is right, that Sen. Sang, now governor, played a big role together with the Senate Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights, where Sen. Murkomen, Sen. Dullo and I, were Members of that Committee. The value of this Bill cannot be gainsaid. I will make a few examples of things I think we can do. I was very surprised when Sen. Malalah invited me to speak to the County Assembly of Kakamega about a month ago. Inside the building where the assembly sits, is a bronze plate of the people form Kakamega who fought in the First and Second World Wars. However, when I was there, I heard them saying that the building is too old. They wanted to abandon it and possibly demolish it. To me, it is a misunderstanding of what this should be. Sen. Murkomen, Since they have not provided for this, what caveat do you put for the soldiers of Makueni who fought in the First and Second World Wars when the Committee that is sitting consists of the governor and executive committee member who possibly was born so many moons after the soldiers of the First World War? There must be a caveat. To what extent can we recognize people? To make this a prospective law that will recognize people going forward and not backwards. I think is an enormous mistake. When Governor Kibwana was being inaugurated and I, thereafter, spoke to the County Assembly of Makueni, I told them that there was a man who was 107 years who was a chief in the 1940s. He was the person who gave me the minutes of the 1962 Boundary Commission that went to sit in Lancaster and came up with 116 constituencies, 41 districts and eight regions. That old man had the map of Kenya before and after Independence as big as this table. I told them that this gentleman should be recognized. When he came to my office and gave me stories as to why Mtito Andei and Tsavo River are called so and their meaning, I decided to call a cameraman and told him to continue talking. He was recorded for 45 minutes speaking continuously about the history of Ukambani and the province as it was then. The gentleman died earlier this year with no recognition and possibly there is an unmarked grave somewhere. The history that we would have learnt from him has disappeared."
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