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    "id": 971538,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "is a daughter who was not married, she will be buried in banana plantations to show that she came back home. In a situation where a person commits suicide, he or she will be buried at night to show that it was a bad omen to the society. So, in as much as I support this Motion, we should not put it in the budget of the county governments. When a person is alive, he or she contributes a lot to the society so that they leave a legacy. However, when a person is dead, they do not have any value to anybody. So, we should be sober in the way we handle this Motion so that it does not go out of hand. There are so many things that the county governments need to do to ensure that they develop counties. They should to come up with good practices that will manage cemeteries. For example, a cemetery should have a manager. They should also be managed well so that they are not scary places. They should be places where people can walk casually and relax. People should know that death is a transition. So, there is need for capacity building and guidance. We should borrow from the Western countries where cemeteries are well managed. There is also need to memorialize heroes at burial sites. We should provide areas to bury heroes who die and have nowhere to be buried back home Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there are people who never buried their kin at home. However, nowadays, there is a good practice where the dead are buried at home. The rituals for the dead are good because they bring people together. So, as I support this Motion, it should not break our fabric as Africans. There are some African cultural practices that are rich. We cannot take a 100 per cent from the West. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when I was a lecturer at Jomo Kenyatta University of Technology (JKUAT), a colleague of mine died and was buried at Lang’ata Cemetery and everybody lamented why he was buried there yet he had a farm. It is a good thing to be buried in a family home. However, there is need for those without family homes to be buried in a managed cemetery. They should not be haphazard places where people kill each other at night. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support this Motion, but with a lot of reservations. With those remarks, I beg to second."
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