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    "id": 242941,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamwere",
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        "legal_name": "Koigi Wamwere",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I believe that these contracts should be made on the basis of reciprocity. If we have allowed the BBC, the Voice of America (VoA) and now China Radio International to have some FM frequencies, I think it is only fair that these countries are also able to give us frequencies in their own space. But if you have a situation where we only allow them to come here and broadcast to our people and we cannot do the same in their counties, I think there is a disadvantage that we need to overcome. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know that it is the view of the Ministry that if the countries that we have given FM frequencies to will not reciprocate by allowing us to have FM frequencies in their own space, we will, in fact, look at the contracts again. Regarding the question of local content, we have a big problem in the sense that whether it is the KBC or private broadcasters, most of the programmes are foreign. This has been so because there has been some belief that the way to make money is actually to go foreign. I think we have a law that demands that, at least, 40 per cent of radio and television programmes should be local. But, of course, neither KBC nor the private broadcasting houses have respected this law. It is up to us to begin enforcing this law so that we can have more local content in our programmes."
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