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    "id": 1565286,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "“All activities or trade by persons that produce artistic, cultural, or innovative goods and services, including fashion, publishing, advertising, crafts, music, audio, visual, performing arts, video film, imaging photography, gaming, animation, graphic design, web design, and so on.” In all this naming, I am sure you can think of others who have been left out. One that I can think of is just artworks - the clear art, the drawings that people make and sell or paintings that people make and sell. That is art. We have many others, even plaiting of hair. That is an art. I urge Sen. Eddy, that we must in our definitions, ensure that the definitions are open-ended enough to be more inclusive rather than exclusive. The same comment goes on the clause that actually provides for the membership of the Guild. The clause that is providing for the membership of the Guild has actually named various people who should form the membership of this Guild. You have a principal secretary relating to trade industrialisation. I do not know why it must be trade and not culture. You have somebody nominated by an association representing the largest number of persons in the film industry. How do you define that? There is one person nominated by the association representing the largest number of persons in the music industry. What parameters do you use to determine that? You have one person nominated by the association representing the largest number in the fashion industry. Now, the association has picked what it has named there, and I am wondering whether that style is clear enough to deliver the people we want. I am glad that he is actually naming different bits. Do we want those in the film industry and their associations to elect one among them to represent or how do we determine what is largest? What does largest mean? We need to be careful about that. Clause 8(i), talks of an advocate of the High Court of Kenya nominated by the Law Society of Kenya (LSK). I do not know why it is open-ended like that. If we must have a lawyer, we might have wanted a lawyer who has competence in intellectual property rights. Maybe that is now bringing on board the lawyer who will provide guidance to that team. We have a clause later that says “to ensure not more than two-thirds gender”. This is the space where I think one of the memberships should have gone directly to Persons with Disabilities (PwDs). I say this because PwDs are ordinarily excluded from the job market. The school process actually is very limited. You will find that we have very few schools run by missionaries for PwDs with hearing disability. We have never provided for them in the public realm. If we had a Member who had a hearing disability in the Senate, how would we facilitate their participation? If you go to Ministry of Education or the Attorney General's office, is it designed so that when management meetings are there, they can provide for a person with hearing disability? Most of these people have had to actually look to their own inward resources to make to earn a living. We have a number of people with disabilities who have ended up in the creative industry because largely they were excluded by society. I would have wanted to see a specific seat on this advisory board for PwDs. In fact, maybe two seats that would The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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