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    "id": 269503,
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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": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mr. Kioni talked about timing and again, all these matters of agreement yesterday are time bound. We are giving them 90 days all the way to six months, depending on the Treasury on some of them; and depending on the staff for some of them and what else can be done but we are not taking this forever. Even hon. Members have agreed that we are going to have a review every so often to audit our own actions. As a matter of asking why now, Mr. Ochieng asked why now and not before. If you look at the development at KBC, where we found it and where we are now, we have made tremendous progress. You can already see the equipment that we brought in and the conditions of work that are there. There have been major improvements of many things that have been dogging that organization. A workforce of over 1,200 working for a national broadcaster--- People have been there forever. Some of them came not knowing what to do. Some of them were brought differently and we are trying to deal with this matter. Some of them actually have no skills in some places like Dr. Khalwale was saying. We are going to deal with all that. Let me say that the auditing that has already begun--- As we speak today, the Ministry of State for Public Service has sent three officers to audit the workforce. We have our own department; Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), which is going to audit technical equipment that is there. There was also a claim that the equipment that was brought there are substandard. We have now asked the CCK to go and audit the equipment. We have the human resource to be audited. We have impropriety in the fields at the ranks also being audited and so, what I am telling this House is that the work has begun. We have an agreement with the workers. There will be an ongoing audit and I personally gave the word that I will be going to KBC so often to check on this progress to make sure that the national broadcaster flies high the flag of this country, and not be put to shame like some of the things that I have seen in the last few days. So, I agreed with the workers that their complaints were genuine and we are doing something about them. That is basically why they went back to work."
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