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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am really honoured to be contributing to this very important debate. I would like to first say a big thank you to this Committee for preparing such an amazing and timely Report. What is being proposed here is indeed long overdue. This is what we should have done as far back as the 9th Parliament. It is said that if you do not tell your story someone else will tell your story and the way they will tell your story might not be to your liking. It is the people of Ghana who tell us that until the lion tells his side of the story, the story about the hunting will always glorify the hunter. This explains why this institution has become the punching bag of this Republic; we are not telling our story as it is. Our story is being told by other people out there. It is said that he who controls the media controls the mind. The people who are broadcasting the story of Parliament out there are actually controlling the psyche and the thinking of the population. We all agree that in Parliament we do a lot of work behind the scenes. The unglamorous and unreported work is actually the heavy lifting. When we go back to look at the television in the evening, we see three minutes of a plenary engagement between the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of Minority Party. That is all the reporting that we will see that day from Bunge . What is being proposed here is fundamental? I am glad that the chairman talked about the formulation of parliamentary broadcasting channels. In these channels what we are getting into is the business of content creation. We shall be broadcasting ourselves to the world in the way we would like to be seen. The tenets of communication are such that you need to have a message, a channel and an audience. The message is there, we are churning out content after content in this House through our parliamentary debates, in committees and even in the field. The audience is The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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