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    "id": 1564137,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1564137/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "by plagiarism. How do you protect people like Samson Maombi, who has sung Adventist songs in country music tones? These are intellectual property right, and Madam Temporary Speaker; you are a very senior lawyer in this country. I am happy that you have introduced something called intellectual property rights. There was the issue of shooting. The Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) was closed from Friday to yesterday. We could not access it, and I am told they did dancing waters outside there worth Kshs100 million, but it is dysfunctional. The PSC Commissioner is here, and we know that the KICC is a landmark used by content creators. He should tell KICC to allow young people to use their grounds because it is a heritage of Kenya. However, the KICC is poorly run. The toilets are pathetic. The corridors are badly lit. You see cockroaches and rats walking around in the KICC, and they dare close KICC because Parliament has not paid them money? Madam Temporary Speaker, as much as we are telling the Parliamentary Joint Services to pay money to KICC, the people running it should know it is a heritage, like the National Archives. They should allow young people to go up to the helipad and shoot their short videos. That is the least we can do for the young people. Even Parliament should allow young people to do short videos. We do not need the Gen Z protests for them to access here and shoot videos. We should have an orderly manner on how they can walk into the Chamber with the protection of Serjeant-at-Arms and the organization of the Clerk of the Senate and the National Assembly. Let us open up these spaces for young people to create their content and earn money. That is the least we can do. We cannot create for them jobs. Even for us, we beg for jobs to be here. The only thing we can do is allow them---"
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