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    "id": 195324,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kioni",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would also want to support this timely Motion. It has come at a time when we all need to think a lot about the services that are consumed in this country. Perhaps, we need to look back and see what transpired in the last couple of months in this country. We are still in the healing process. It is important for us to reflect and see the various parties that may have contributed to the difficulties that we have had. One of the areas that I would want addressed when the Bill will be drafted is the media sector. I have in mind both the print and electronic media, especially the vernacular radio stations. It has been said far and wide that most of the content or messages that were allowed to go on air before, during and even after the campaigns - and perhaps even during the counting process - contributed in a big way to the breakdown that followed the December 27th General Elections. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is important that even as we think of the Consumer Bill, the information that is let out by the media houses for consumption by members of the public be of such a nature that it does not allow the society to break into pieces. It should be of such a nature that it does not go out to incite one community against the other. It should also be that we can hold those who allow that information to go out accountable. The consumer needs to know that what is being allowed even in terms of campaigns--- When we use the electronic and print media, the things that we allow people to consume are those that are going to keep us together and help the society to become more cohesive and this nation to become stronger. We should not just use one occasion or one event to destroy what we have created in a period of over 40 years. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have a lot of importation of foreign programmes, which have, in a big way, corrupted the moral fabric in this society. It is important that we use this proposed Bill to check the kind of programmes we allow the young to consume, and what we are exposing the society to. This is so that we continue moving forward as a nation, with our own identity, and without necessarily aping other societies that may not be doing things in any more superior manner than we do. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have talked about other areas, such as the transport sector, where consumers need protection. Without being repetitive, we need to address issues in the transport sector. We have a very important matatu sector. About 95 per cent of Kenyans use"
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