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    "id": 267056,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Khaniri",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Information and Communications",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 171,
        "legal_name": "George Munyasa Khaniri",
        "slug": "george-khaniri"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise as the Assistant Minister in charge of this particular corporation. At the very onset, the concerns that have been raised in the Petition by hon. Mbadi are very genuine and it is important that as Government and Parliament, we look into these concerns seriously and address them once and for all. I want to cite the third concern where the hon. MP is requesting that we review the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Act, Cap.131. I support this fully. It will be the responsibility of this Parliament to do this particular task. My Ministry is going to take the initiative to see that we review this Act so that it is in tandem with the current times and the Constitution. Mr. Speaker, Sir, KBC is the national broadcaster. It is a very important component of this country and it must, therefore, be supported fully both in terms of budgetary allocation and advertisements by Government institutions and Ministries. It saddens me to learn that less than 10 percent of the money spent by Government Ministries and departments come to KBC. This is not supporting the corporation. I am on record on the Floor urging Ministries and Government departments to carry out their advertisements through the national broadcaster. In response to what hon. C. Kilonzo alluded to, it is true that I was very loud and clear on Floor saying that no employee of KBC will be victimized. I still stand by that and I want to give that assurance that no employee will be victimized. I am having a meeting with the striking employees tomorrow morning to see if we can get solutions to their grievances. I want to reiterate that once we get the solutions, no employee will be victimized. Lastly, I want to appeal to the striking employees that as a Ministry, we are looking into their grievances. I am confident that we will come up with solutions to their problems. We appeal to them to remain calm at this very difficult time for them. Their problems are being looked into."
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