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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I hear the concerns of the Senator for Laikipia and if I am old-fashioned, I should be forgiven. I am very confused The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "with the system of education that we have in the country. I actually do not know. I have no idea what this thing called Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) means. I was joking with my farm manager when he told me that he asked his four-year- old daughter to spell her name. She is called Rosalia. The girl said, the spelling of my name, Rosalia, is Ro-sa-lia. Then I said, look at this CBC and what it is doing to Rosalia. As much as you guys like CBC, I personally have a lot of reservations about it. We could do it better. I hear that in Botswana, it has been done well. I hear that for them to get there they piloted it for ten years. We got it and applied it in the same tradition, that a child learns how to balance himself on a motorbike and in the afternoon, he is a boda boda business man or business woman. I thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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"content": " Thank you, Sen. Boni. Sen. Okong’o Omogeni."
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"content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to also make a contribution to this important Bill - The Heritage and Museums Bill of 2023. The Swahili say that muacha mila ni mtumwa. If you have traveled around the world, you will realize that many countries have put their best effort to preserve their heritage and their culture. When you go to a country like Morocco, you will know that these are Moroccans. In this country, if you go to Maasai land, where Sen. Olekina comes from, you will immediately know that these are Maasais. They have preserved their culture. Unfortunately, some of the sub-tribes in this country, including my own in Kisii are forgetting our heritage and culture. We are losing our identity. I am sure that if you go to Maasai land, almost 90 percent of the Maasai people can speak the Maasai language and they are proud of it and that culture. When you drive from Narok to Kisii, every Maasai will be carrying a tradition"
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"content": "although I do not know what the significance is. Tourists who come to Kenya may not know that there is a tribe called the Kuria but maybe they know about the Kisii because we have the chinkororo. You go to a country and if somebody has come to Kenya and visited Maasai Mara, they will most not likely mention the Kikuyu sub-tribe or the Kisii sub-tribe. However, they ask whether you are a Maasai? This is because, the Maasai have been one of the most successful tribes in this country that have retained their heritage and their culture. It is sad and even for me as a father, I feel sorry for myself because our children think that it is fashionable to speak English and not speak your local language. I mean, some of us went to school where from Class One to Class Two, the language of choice was your ethnic language. There is no one here from Kisii but we had a book – Ratemo and it was the introduction to our Class One. Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not know when the rain started beating us, but nowadays, the introduction is Kiswahili and English. How I wish once more we can find room. The Chinese control the world, but they speak Chinese. They are not embarrassed or ashamed of it. If you go to Japan, the Japanese speak Japanese language but they are The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "still the pacesetters in technological development. However, in this part of the world, we are teaching our children to think that if you speak your ethnic language, you are primitive. That should not be it. There is a very good reason why the Almighty God divided us into several tribes. This is so that we have an identity we are proud of. Like I am proud of being an Omogusii. That is why I am proud of my name Okong’o Omogeni. You can link me to my ethnic group of Omogusii. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this Bill. From the onset, I want to say that I am one of those Kenyans who are very proud of their own heritage and culture. When we grew up, we used to go through an initiation and the whole community would be involved. When you were facing circumcision, the celebration was not for one family but for the entire village. You invite your neighbours, they come and celebrate, you take the traditional liquor for wazees and you are moved to the next age group. I therefore hope that this Bill will take us back to the drawing board so that we see when and where the rain started beating us and then we can be proud to preserve our heritage and culture. Coming to the museums, you will travel to other countries and you will be surprised with the queue you will find in a museum. However, when you go inside, there is nothing much. I am sure we could get more that we can preserve as a country than what you will get out there like having pictures of our legends. Who would not like to come to this country and see a photo of Kipchoge Keino put somewhere in a museum and pay money for it? Madam Temporary Speaker, I am told that the tourists we attract to this country is around two million, with our population of about 50 million. Countries in Asia that have nothing for people to see, like Japan, have about three million tourists in a month. I am also told that Rwanda is ahead of Kenya because they have mountain gorillas. Therefore, if we create museums in many of our counties, this will be one way of attracting tourists. We all know that tourism is one of our highest foreign earners for our country and we need to grow our tourism in order to support our economy. We are going to have a budget of Kshs4.2 trillion and if we are serious that that budget should be supported substantially by our local revenue, the way to go should be in tourism. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you go to Central Kenya, there is a lot that we can learn about the Mau Mau. Get us pictures of Dedan Kimathi, the wives of those people who fought for our independence and their weapons. Do we not have people in Central Kenya who kept rungus that were used to fight the Mzungu, or a spear that killed a"
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"content": "? In Nyamira and the larger Kisii, we are told that there is a man who is called Otenyo. Otenyo speared a mzungu, whom the Kisii had nicknamed Nyaigoti. He speared that mzungu in Kisii town and killed him. The Kisiis keep that spear somewhere. I am sure if we go to Central Kenya, we will find many other items that can be kept in our museums. Then, we will interest our visitors who are coming in to visit various counties and see what the various sub-ethnic tribes in Kenya are proud of. That will be part of our culture, and that will be a way of attracting tourists. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "I have gone to museums in some countries, and you see barely anything, but you pay money. When you land, the taxi man, the guy at the airport, will go to great lengths to make you interested in visiting the museum. However, when you go there, there is nothing. How many of us have jetted into Kenya through Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, and there is somebody to interest you to visit a park that is just within the city? How many countries have parks within the city? There is nobody. You are entering Nairobi, and there is nobody to interest you and say, \"visit a national park, which is just within the city's boundaries.\" Nobody. You go to Dubai, and the moment you land, people are queuing, trying to interest you, \"go to the desert safari,\" When you go on a desert safari, the roads are rough like ours here. You see vumbi and nothing else. We need to do a lot. I want to appeal to our Cabinet Secretary for Tourism to tap into this country's tourism potential. She could bring us a lot of foreign earnings if only she tapped the untapped potential in the tourism sector. We have soapstone in Kisii. No country in Africa has the Kisii soapstone. It is only found in Kisii, in an area called Tabaka, in South Mugirango. Even if you go to West Pokot, Kajiado, or Muranga, the stone is not there. It is only found in Kisii, in Africa, and no other country. However, many tourists come to Kenya, go to Masai Mara, and then come back to Nairobi, board a plane, and return to Europe. If we had a desk at the airport marketing that industry in Tabaka, I am sure we would get a lot of revenue. We sell those carvings. When you go to Europe, you will pay a leg and an arm. We used to do that as arts and crafts when we were young boys in school. I am happy that we are allowing the board to have a full mandate of recruiting the Managing Director for the National Museums of Kenya. However, we have a problem that is cropping up in this country. Even when you create a board like this - I was in a political function where somebody was pleading with the President to assist somebody in being appointed. As Members of Parliament, we have passed a law that says recruitment will be competitive and based on merit. You are a lawyer and know the agitation by lawyers preceding the 2010 Constitution. You know what the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Raila Amollo Odinga and President William Ruto is about. It is about fairness, inclusivity, and eradicating corruption. I feel so sad when, as legislators, we sit down, pass a beautiful piece of legislation, send it to the President, and the President signs it. This law states that as a country, Kenyans could be picked to sit on a board; we give them the power to invite applicants and interview them, and the one who merits will be appointed. However, politicians want to go back to the President to assist their person to be appointed, which is not nice. It goes contrary to the spirit of our 2010 Constitution. Right now, we are conducting interviews for the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). Through a Motion on the Floor of this House, we went to the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) and spent a lot of time there - burning the midnight oil. We brought to the Floor a fantastic piece of legislation. We proposed that we appoint people to sit on the panel that will interview commissioners to IEBC because we do not want to take the country back to the situation before the 2007 elections when The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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