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    "id": 1126336,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I am shocked. Is it in order for my good friend Sen. Olekina to almost discourage media houses from sorting out their obligations to our young musicians and artists? It is important to read reports because when they appeared before the Committee, they accepted that they owe our musicians - including from your county – money. There is what we call the Blank Media Levy and what they pay to the Collective Management Organizations (CMOs). I am not only talking about Skiza which is from Safaricom Limited. I am talking about content. When your music is played on a radio station, there is an amount that comes to you. When your content is played on a TV station as a movie or series for example, Papa Shirandula, there is what is supposed to be paid. The media owners, including one who is sitting very close to me, admitted that they owe this amount of money; there had challenges during COVID 19 times but they committed to pay them. Let us not make it look like they have an excuse not to pay. Our young people are suffering. I am in many groups of creative economy where young people express their challenges. I have been a musician, I know that when a musician is selling his work, it is as if you are cutting off your hand. Things are bad. They cannot pay rent, school fees or hospital bills. We cannot come here and say that it is okay for our musicians and actors not to be paid while all these media houses are paying foreigners. They are paying Universal Records, Bollywood, Nollywood, Hollywood and South America. That is why our children wake up and think that there is no talent in Kenya so we have to watch South American soap operas. It is not in order to encourage media houses not to pay. They must pay. They have said they are willing to. Let us not make it look like there is a window. That is very dangerous."
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