Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 244006,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/244006/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 46,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamwere",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Information and Communications",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 352,
        "legal_name": "Koigi Wamwere",
        "slug": "koigi-wamwere"
    },
    "content": "I do not understand why I have to be congratulated twice. I thought that I had answered my maiden Question, so I do not understand the reason for the applause. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) It is true that 253 workers have left the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation and not 260, in a staff rationalization exercise that was approved by the Government. The first and second phases of the exercise were implemented last year in which 121 employees left the corporation. The current exercise is the third phase of the programme which has seen 253 employees leave the corporation. (b) While tabling the list of staff who are being retrenched, I wish to inform the House that the process of restructuring the KBC is ongoing with a view to attaining optimal staffing levels that will deliver services to Kenyans in the liberalised broadcasting sector. Some of the officers identified for early retirement are idle capacity due to changes in broadcasting technology. As much as we are sympathetic with their plight, the Government is unable to retain them in the corporation on philanthropic grounds. (c) The criteria used to select the affected officers was as follows: Inadequate academic qualifications or lack of minimum O level certificates, 53 employees; lack of professional qualifications, 41 employees; outsourced services or artists, 35 employees; modernisation of operations, technological changes, 60 employees; poor performance, 4 employees; lack of potential for career progression, 5 employees; and, excess staff, 25 employees. Twenty out of the retrenched staff did not have any academic qualifications at all."
}