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    "id": 963220,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Prof. Bethwell Ogot has literally taught the whole of Kenya. When we recognize him and just write his name in a Hall of Fame is an assault on the integrity and dignity of those we are recognizing. We must restructure this Bill seriously. When we go to the Committee Stage, I will invite Sen. Fatuma or whoever sent her to move the Bill, to bring a restructured Bill that tells us, for example, if we are recognizing a Pokot pastoralist, what do we confer on him, so that he can be an example to others and does not go to Kapenguria Market with his medal and stand there to see whether anybody recognizes or appreciates him? That is what the Hall of Fame should be. That is what the heroes and heroines of the country should be. If we do not do so, this Bill will amount to nothing. In fact, the way the Bill is structured, we are simply giving governors an opportunity to hand pick their cronies and make them heroes and heroines and put them in the Hall of Fame. We must make it very difficult for anybody to sneak into the Hall of Fame. That way, then we say that once you get there, you cannot get out. To now give the governor an opportunity that in case Sen. (Prof.) Kamar wants to become the Governor of Uasin Gishu, the governor can strike out her name from the Hall of Fame, that discretion is dangerous, because it is not based on reason, sense and merit. It is based on whims of an individual and you know how whimsy some of our governors are."
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