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    "id": 216145,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. K. Kilonzo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Julius Kiema Kilonzo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will address the Chair. I apologise for that. The fact of the matter is that the Government is looking for a back way of legislating and approving what became of the Kenya Television Network (KTN) when it was invaded by hooded men. The Government is trying to bring a law to justify the First Lady walking into the Daily Nation premises and harassing the country about a newspaper report that she found to be unacceptable to her. The Government is creating the right atmosphere to continue the arrests, prosecution and false persecution of journalists as we have witnessed in the recent past. The Government is looking for a way of making sure that journalists will never be able to write anything critical about the Government so that whenever the Government creates figures and false allegations, and if one publishes that information, he or she will be required to give an apology. In fact, most of the journalists in this country will be moving from their offices to one Ministry to the other and they will not have time to write what they think. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to tell you this, in respect and in answer to the Minister, telling us about the United States of America (USA) Constitution. The USA Constitution, in fact, contains an express provision saying that: \"Congress shall not make a law abridging freedom of expression\". The councils that you talk about in the USA are created by the media houses themselves through July 4, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2295 self regulation. They are not through legislation and you do not have to register with any Minister or Committee for purposes of becoming a journalist. Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, let me also highlight something else. In the definition clause---"
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