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    "id": 1564127,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "He has become a Chairperson. I remember, after the first Senator in the last session passed on when he was fighting with the current governor, we were excited to have the young man who was supposed to come. Nonetheless, I am happy God has been gracious to him. These are the real issues. I want the young people across the country to celebrate and appreciate Sen. Eddy for this serious trade mark, so that we do not appear like we do not talk about youth issues. This Creative Economy Support Bill is one of the life-changing Bills. It is bringing order and sanity with this creative economy for the young people. The biggest beneficiaries will be the young people. Whenever I walk into the village during the weekends, young people will ask me, ‘ Mheshimiwa, we have not heard you speaking about youth issues.’ This is one of the youth issues we are discussing. We want to bring order and sanity within the creative economy area. Therefore, I want to propose that for startups, we need to do tax exemptions. Likewise, in sports industry, we have been pushing that the awards that the athletes win outside the country, must be given tax exemptions. They are subjected to double taxation because Facebook or Meta Company taxes them. Why is it that the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) wants to tax them again? We need to give them tax exemptions according to the principle we use for the sports and athletics, where we say since our award has been taxed in the winning country, there is no need for the KRA to come and tax again. I am happy with this issue of royalties. At least, our musicians or artists are now living in dignity. I want to challenge Sen. Eddie that even as we propose this Bill, we must audit the Music Copyright Society of Kenya on royalties. People like Joel Kimeto have sung for long, Sweetstar. There are many of them like Chelele and Kipchumba, may their souls rest in peace. We even have what we call Kaptel Moran dancers who are invited to state functions and they are only given Kshs10,000 or Kshs20,000. It is embarrassing after enjoying their songs. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am happy the President mentioned that going into the future, we will get cheaper phones. When you walk around the National Archives here in Nairobi, especially on weekends, you will find young people using drones and their phones in shooting. Therefore, I am requesting that we zero rate the cameras, phones and videography, so that our young people can shoot some of these short videos to upload on TikTok, Facebook and Twitte r and ensure that they earn something. One of the things that we were taught in the Literature Class, was that this is Kioo"
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