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    "id": 1144408,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "have an idea on where to file returns. We removed all those taxes and let them use their talent and energy in entertaining people and getting accepted. I am glad when I see people like Hon. Kiarie here in Parliament and realizing what they did to revolutionise the entertainment industry. Comedy and many other things are arts that people can earn from. When I look at these things, I now realise the real empowerment our people need. It is not in terms of the promises about money that we make on political platforms, but the tangible things like laws that we make here. As a result, they can have an operative framework that is conducive and favourable to them. Everyone will feel that if they come up with something, then they will reap the real benefit of it. That is what the developed world has done. For example, it is what the Silicon Valley chaps in the United States of America (USA) are doing. They are succeeding with the unicorns that Hon. Ndindi Nyoro was talking about. In fact, I would have loved to see him here. Murang’a is the production centre of these artists although Nyandarua has since overtaken them with musicians like Jose Gatutura, DJ Fatso and others. Those who enjoy the Mugithi type of music know who I am taking about. Even gospel musicians like Waiganjo come from Nyandarua. I am now in safe territory competing with people from Murang’a who thought that music was their “cash crop”. We have since taken over. I am glad that these guys know that the more they sing, the more they get innovative and the more money they will make. Before this Bill gets passed, the more they sing, the more they get frustrated and the more money other people make as they end up in abject poverty. We have come out to reduce the pain of that ordinary musician. I believe that this House will come to the rescue of artists unanimously, regardless of our own issues. Like we have seen in the past, there are some things that should actually bind us because we all believe in empowerment of our youth. I hope that we will give this Bill a quick passage so that even as we go on our campaign trails and play songs from artists, we will be the first ones to show the country that we are prepared to pay. That will empower our youths. The last thing we want is to keep doing harambees for artists when they cannot sing anymore because they have fallen sick and they have nothing to hold onto, yet we have all been enjoying their art and others benefiting from it. The telecom providers report huge profits courtesy of the skiza tunes, but the musicians are languishing in poverty!"
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