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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ochilo-Ayacko",
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        "legal_name": "Ochilo George Mbogo Ayacko",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to say that I hold freedom as dear to me. If it was not for the freedom that we enjoy; be it freedom of speech or expression, some of us would not be enjoying the privilege that we have in this House. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what is being proposed by the administration of the day is that we need to have a professional Press and professionalism in journalism. That is all on board. But I want to say that professionalism is only assessed and measured against the panel that is constituted by professionals. So, in this Bill, there is a suggestion that the hand of Government should be involved in this regulation. We know that the interest of every Government is to defend itself against competition from those who are opposed to the ideas of the day. Any provision in this Bill that enjoins or empowers the Minister to have a say, would dilute that professionalism and just go, to a large extent, to interfere with the freedom that has been responsible for the development that we have achieved up to now."
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