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    "id": 1016795,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "advertising within the county. There has been confusion where so many organizations are taxing and imposing charges to members of the outdoor advertising organizations, making it so difficult to know where the money goes. It is important that as the Standing Committee on Information, Communication and Technology, we look at all the possible ways of making sure that this group of people who do outdoor advertising, billboards and all the other technical aspects of advertising can be brought to one common regime and given controls. Some of these controls can be given to the counties and the other controls can be given to the Kenya National Highways Authority and all the other authorities that control advertising, including the Kenya Railways. When the Bill went to the National Assembly, they went through all the aspects of it in their Committee. They have made proposals for some amendments. We agree with some of them and think we can look at the others again. This consideration is very important to someone who is close to this kind of business, who is in this House, and I shall not name them now. We come to the place where there should be no confusion when you want to advertise in the county in terms of who you are going to pay, who is going to determine who gives you conditions, and which conditions you follow. We have had this problem for long. We have talked about the Bill itself before. I am only talking about the amendments now and that is why there is need for us to consider these amendments. We have to accept that in this business, technology has come to overtake us. Since the new way of doing outdoor advertising is cloud-based, it is now electronic. There is a lot of moving; it is not static. Thus, we have new ways of doing outdoor advertising that counties must accept. One can decide that they are not mounting this here; they want to be mobile. One will want an advertisement that moves all over. With those few remarks, I beg to move and ask Sen. Sakaja to second."
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