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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I seek your indulgence that the media be allowed back to the Media Centre that is situated within Parliament Buildings. This House cannot operate without the media. We know that the media is very important to this House. How do we disseminate information? Are we going to talk to ourselves? Kenyans need to know what we are discussing in this House. Unless we want to discuss hidden agenda in this House, the media must be taken more seriously than the way this House is trying to do; it is gagging them. The House has taken up the role of gagging the media since we came here. It is high time we dropped that role and gave media the attention that they require. That is why the Bill was not brought to this House. Stakeholders have not discussed this Bill. I am a member of the Committee on Energy, Communication and Information and I know that we have not received this Bill. The Media Council of Kenya has been asking when the Bill would be coming. They have not been able to interrogate the Bill. This is unacceptable. This is not what Kenyans brought us here to do! We cannot allow people to discuss unconstitutional Bills like those giving one person authority to detain people as it used to happen before. The other Bills that were brought here are already Acts of Parliament and are operational. Why do you want to remove power from a constitutional commission and give it to an individual, if you really do not have bad intentions? When you want to remove powers from a commission and vest them in an individual, that means you have bad intentions for this country. That is unconstitutional. With those few remarks, I beg to oppose this Motion vehemently. It is a wrong Motion for this House at this time. It should be withdrawn by the Mover."
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