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    "id": 1564121,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Sen. Mungatana, we had requested that given the contribution that that team from Tana River made to the UDA party, it would be proper for them to be properly recognized. Probably, if there was a misunderstanding, then I want to make it now properly to you, Sen. Mungatana, that those young people need to be recognized by our Party. Between you and I, we can get them to the party headquarters and have them listened to on the exact kind of reward they expected from us when we formed government. The point I was trying to make overall is the reward for the works that creators make. There are many other people that make this kind of contribution. I know, for example, there is a young lady from my county that sang a very important anthem that propelled Jubilee to power in 2017 across the Rift Valley. We visited her a few weeks ago, and she kept on saying that the challenge with especially the political class is that there is no good value for the content that they create. That lady, for example, sang to me back in 2015, my first campaign song. I have since had other songs done to me by other musicians, but unfortunately, this still remains to be the favourite. How do we compensate for intellectual property such as that? We do not have sufficient legislation or a premium. Many of them, due to poverty, sing sometimes for as cheap as Kshs10,000 or Kshs20,000, and it propels a brand, either of an individual, a company or product, yet, they do not get sufficient reward. This Guild needs to set the policies and standards of how that such people can be compensated. I know there are other institutions that do that job, but there is need for modern thinking, Sen. Eddy. I hope that the Guild will be able to facilitate the creative artist in doing those kinds of things. I congratulate Sen. Eddy for his industry and ensuring that he remembers a key segment of our society. We will be serving well when we succeed to pass this Bill, get it through our colleagues in the National Assembly, get their input and funding, and move it on to the next level. I support."
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