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    "id": 1069927,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1069927/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 49,
        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to support this Report on Departmental Committee on Broadcasting and Library, for the work they have done. As we do this, we should agree that the Committee and the Government should not abandon the KBC. We have abandoned KBC, we are underfunding it and that is costing us a lot. As we speak, the employees of KBC are out there without a pay. I think it is important even as we seek to move to other areas, we ensure that we do not abandon KBC because their staff will suffer. We must make sure that the station functions and helps the country to move forward. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, even as we dabate today, it is important we remember that we are here in the night and Kenyans are watching movies from Nigeria now through the private stations. Nobody knows that we are seated here working for them. So, even as you are lamenting, they are still not with you, they are doing other things. Look at this Report. It was done by the Public Accounts Committee. How many Kenyans know that Parliament produces these kinds of reports? How many institutions in this country produce these kinds of reports within the time that, say, PAC produces its reports? Like others have said, if we do not tell our story, others will tell it in the way they have done it over the years. This is yet another Report done by the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee (JLAC) within a very short while and we dealt with it but nobody will get to know these things unless we get this done. We have again done ourselves in. After we debate here and pass this Motion, like we did the Bill on Public Fundraising Appeals a little earlier, we then subject ourselves to the Senate. The Senate may not have the urgency that we have here. So, good things could easily be lost within the one year that is lost here. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, another thing that we need is to challenge the courts for having misled the institutions that we must subject our work to one another while the Constitution is very clear as to what needed to go to the other side. We commend the Royal Media Services, Kenya Television Network (KTN) and the others, but they are in the profit- making business; they are not here to help us grow ourselves. They are not here for anything else. So, they will only cover us if we make an interesting and a populist statement; that is what will find its way into the media because they are looking for money and they want more viewers. They are not interested in what comes after that and they do it the way they want. If we allow this to continue, we can only blame ourselves. 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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