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    "id": 971543,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Were",
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        "legal_name": "Petronila Were Lokorio",
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    "content": "the House got occupied with many graves, people would relocate from that home and move elsewhere. That home would be called likunda or makunda . It became a place for growing food. Families would move to the next piece of land. However, that piece of land is no longer available. So, we need to develop these cemeteries and encourage our people to take their departed relatives there. County governments should make sure that public cemeteries are maintained and are beautiful to look at. They should develop funeral homes and have chapels or churches within those funeral parlors. They should also develop gardens for recreation so that people mourn their dead or celebrate the lives of the people who have gone in peace. The world is changing. As we move forward, we will highly require these services. This Motion is important as it will enable counties prepare themselves to bury their own people; families may not be able to. We now have families with many sons and the Constitution today allows daughters to inherit land. As a result of this, no one is going to have space to bury their people. Just as we have moved away from traditions such as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and wife inheritance, we are going to eventually move away from the tradition of burying people around our houses so that we bury them in public cemeteries that are planned, developed and maintained by county governments. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the other area is the crematorium which the Motion proposes that they be planned for and developed by county governments. The method of cremating the dead is beginning to gain popularity and counties should not be left out. We should encourage more of our people to cremate. The thought that when one dies his body will be eaten up by ants and also rot is scary. Cremation is a simple method that is more hygienic and straightforward. It is not as scary as the other option of putting somebody in the ground, covering them up and letting them rot away or get eaten away by ants. We should all support the concept of using crematoriums; it is gaining popularity. We should encourage that those who do not have too much fear cremate their dead so that they encourage more people, especially in the counties to take up this method of disposal of our dead. It is a viable alternative and I encourage counties to take it up. This Motion should be implemented and I join my colleagues in calling for the Committee on Implementation to ensure that some of these recommendations that we make in our various Reports and Motions are implemented. This is something that is long overdue and moving forward, it should be developed. I support, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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