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    "id": 246266,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/246266/?format=api",
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    "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"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. The Government is committed to revitalizing the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) to enable it reclaim its position as the premier broadcasting network in the country. To this end, the Government has increased its funding to the public broadcaster over the past three financial years. In the Financial Year 2003/2004, the Government supported the KBC to the tune of Kshs165 million and Kshs100 million in the Financial Year 2004/2005 respectively. During the current financial year it has funded the KBC to the tune of Kshs390 million for the purpose of a restructuring programme whose main components are:- (i) Reduction of KBC's workforce by retrenching hundreds of superfluous staff that were hired just to give them an income. (ii) Improving the pay of KBC's workforce to ensure their retention. (iii) Introducing modern technology in KBC's management systems and signal distribution. (iv) Repairing KBC's buildings and other infrastructure, including furniture and replacing obsolete and analogous equipment with state-of-the-art digital radio and television equipment."
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