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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "of hiring you a Public Address (PA) system and they also act as a Master of Ceremony (MC). Madam Temporary Speaker, however, if you followed this Wotek Self-Help group, you will find that this group does not exist because that receipt has got no date and it does not say that the payments came from the County Government of Nyamira. If you look at another one I have just picked, you will see another one called JUDKIP Enterprises. It says that these were paid some Kshs25,000 on 24th February, 2021, to act as MC in a function that took place in Nyamira. If this was to be something that is happening on the ground, we would all be celebrating and saying; there are people who are benefiting from devolution. However, chances are that these receipts were manufactured by somebody at the county and there is no beneficiary on the ground. Therefore, I support this Bill and hope that once it is enacted, it will be transformative and it will assist us to protect intellectual property rights of our young people. We will also create a legal framework that will protect those who have talent, those who are creative and those who are entertaining us on YouTube, etcetera. With these remarks, I will stop there and thank the Senator for Migori, Sen. Eddy Oketch for coming up with this Bill. I also hope that everyone in the industry will remember that it is Sen. Oketch who changed the fortunes of their lives when this Bill eventually becomes an Act."
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