Mutula Kilonzo Jnr

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• 13 Jul 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will not get tired of poring accolades on Sen. (Dr.) Zani for her hard work in terms of these Bills. We are proud of her even if we have to sound like broken telephones every other time we repeat this. There is value in having women leaders like Sen. (Dr.) Zani. view
• 13 Jul 2021 in Senate: I rise to support the National Flags, Emblems and Names (Amendment) Bill 2020. I must declare my interest on this matter. I have a lot of time for the National Flags, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 13 Jul 2021 in Senate: Emblems and Names Bill. Should I wait, because I do not know whether to say Madam or Mister. There is nobody on the seat actually. Now it is Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. view
• 13 Jul 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have a lot of time for the flag. Allow me to say this on the onset. Citizen Television recently did a coverage on what would be artefacts or memorable symbols, or historical buildings. They started with a building that most of us do not know that is ideally what a zero mile is. It means that the compass of Kenya, if you go there it is called a zero mile. It is a building next to Nyayo House. view
• 13 Jul 2021 in Senate: If you have passed by there today, you will just find people walking around and huge overgrown trees. Nobody notices that there is a beautiful building done in 1918 that is actually the centre of Kenya. The zero mile of Kenya is actually somewhere near Uhuru Highway. I hope in the construction of the road they will protect this building. view
• 13 Jul 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is a building called Kipande House that is run by Kenya Commercial Bank. In my view, this building should not be occupied by a bank. This is a building which tourist should come and visit similar to that building where the former President Murumbi and his wife donated their gowns they used to wear. view
• 13 Jul 2021 in Senate: You will find them there. That is the same to the Kenya National Archives near Tom Mboya Street. If you went there today, you will find somebody selling groundnuts, miraa or something. That building is hardly recognized. It is the same thing when it comes to the national anthem view
• 13 Jul 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, recently and I do not know how far this went through Safaricom, somebody attempted to translate the national anthem into various mother tongues. By the way, it offended me. I believe the national anthem in the words that it was drafted originally both in English and Kiswahili must remain. view
• 13 Jul 2021 in Senate: I do not know what language you speak, but when this national anthem is translated to your mother tongue, it ends up having possibly more syllables and longer. It is not the same and it does not sound the same. It does not make sense. That is not what we want to teach our young people. There is value in having a national anthem in the languages that are recognized nationally. I still wonder who came up with that. view
• 13 Jul 2021 in Senate: These amendments speak to those things; that we must protect our national anthem. In protecting this national anthem, you must copyright it so that the person who attempted to do that can be punished. That is not what the concept was when it was originally crafted and drafted. view