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    "speaker_name": "Kisumu CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Rozaah Buyu",
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        "legal_name": "Rozaah Akinyi Buyu",
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    "content": "encouraging young people to be creative to fend for themselves. Many of these young people have taken to being part of the creational music. These young artists spend long hours coming up with entertainment items like songs. They also spend a lot of energy on the same but in the end what they get in return is peanuts. The Mover highlighted how pathetic the status of these artists is after they perform and make us and politicians happy, and help us to release our stress. When they go back home, many of them sometimes sleep hungry because they make nothing out of their effort. What I like about this amendment Bill is that it seeks to improve the earnings of these young people’s sweat. Elevating their earnings to 52 per cent shows appreciation of their hard work, energy and long hours that they put in this industry. This percentage is an increase from 16 per cent. Indeed, this should be applauded. It is not by one saying that they are coming up with a hustlers' movement to better the lives of young people, but it is by taking a bold step, like what we saw the President and Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga do, in improving the lives of these young people. That is what we must applaud. Before I joined Parliament, I had a business and it was a shame to watch – at times I could cry – young people who looked hungry, walking and knocking on doors of businesses. If you had a television or a radio playing music, they would ask you to pay them something small. What this amendment Bill seeks is to put an end to that so that they do not have to walk all over the place looking for people who are playing their music to pay them to make a living. The introduction of the national registry will take care of that. I encourage artists to be members of the national registry despite the fact that it is voluntary. That will take care of their earnings. What we need to do as Members of this House is to support this Bill. I know as politicians we cannot do our campaigns without music. Most of us do not pay anything for the music we use running around campaigning. We and our supporters dance, we get votes for making people happy but the artists of the music we use make nothing out of it. So, this Bill will streamline and bring discipline among politicians who keep crying that young people need to get employment. When politicians use their music, they should also pay for it. This amendment Bill seeks to ensure that we all pay for the sweat of these young people. With those few remarks, I beg to support. Thank you."
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