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    "id": 269489,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/269489/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Poghisio",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Information and Communications",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 202,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "As I mentioned earlier, the process of restructuring KBC is currently in progress. A team of three officers from the Ministry of State for Public Service have been seconded to the KBC to work on improved scheme of service and to undertake a workload analysis beginning March, 2012. There is also a technical team from the Communications Commission of Kenya to audit technical equipment and a human resource team to carry out an audit on staff. I also wish to clarify that the new grading structure will cost the KBC Kshs30 million per month. As I have stated, we have asked the Treasury to pay for the public broadcast, which will enable the corporation to meet its new obligations. The KBC management was in the process of filing up existing vacancies beginning March, 2012 using some of the temporary employees who have been working in the corporation for long. However, due to the Government freeze on employment, the KBC had to put this process on hold. In our tripartite meeting yesterday, it was agreed that the management consider filling up some of these available vacancies immediately using some of the artists who have been serving the corporation for a long time. It is also suggested that we use some of them in our new network called the Signet, a subsidiary of KBC, once it is incorporated. An improved artist policy is also being prepared by the management. To improve on the general welfare of the KBC staff, my Ministry has taken steps to contact agencies involved in mortgage schemes, for example, the Housing Finance Company of Kenya, with a view to having a credible housing scheme for the staff. Further, we have consulted with the KBC management to procure a comprehensive medical cover for all staff, a process that has already commenced. In conclusion, my Ministry is already moving fast to ensure that the KBC is funded by the Exchequer to enable the corporation perform its mandate as a public broadcaster. The normal operations at KBC have resumed and I assure the House that the coverage of the proceedings shall run as usual. Let me just add that this House can help us make clear the rules also of striking in this country because the people I was addressing yesterday were not all KBC staff. Anybody can go in and be part of the strike and this has made it very difficult to deal with matters because we do not have the rules. It cost the corporation nearly Kshs20 million just because of this and in my view, we can do better if we have better rules of picketing."
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