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"content": "listening to the parents who are complaining. We are also listening to all Kenyans. We believe that when we bring the amendments to this House, all their interests will have been taken into consideration. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, a few amendments which we proposed in this Bill include, but are not limited to the definition of the “Cabinet Secretary”. This Bill says “a Cabinet Secretary means the Cabinet Secretary responsible for matters relating to the media.” However, we are amending that so that it means the man or lady in charge or responsible for matters of information, communication and technology as provided for in the Kenya Information and Communications (Amendment) Act. On the definition of the “media”, we have retained it the way it is. It is good to note that we have adopted this definition from the Kenya Information and Communications Act and the Mover of this Bill, the Leader of the Majority Party, has gone through it. In Clause 8, this Council will comprise of a Chairperson and some members who will be appointed by a selection panel, which will be composed of all the stakeholders. If you look at Clause 8(3), this selection panel, which shall select the members of the Council will include membership from the following organizations, namely, the Media Owners Association, the Kenya Union of Journalists, the Law Society of Kenya, a news agency, the Consumers Federation of Kenya (CFK) and quite a number of other stakeholders. I want to believe that the interests of the various stakeholders will be taken into consideration and the Council, once formed, will take care of all the interests of the other Kenyans including the media. When you look at Clause 15(2), it talks of a complaints commission. The Kenya Information and Communications (Amendment) Bill talks about a tribunal. We discussed as a Committee and agreed with quite a number of stakeholders that we do not have to have a tribunal or complaints commission in the Media Council Bill. Therefore, we shall be replacing the “complaints commission” with the “Communications and Multimedia Appeals Tribunal” which will take care of the interests of the tribunal on the other side and this complaints commission. This will imply that in Part IV of this Bill, on the complaints and dispute resolution, we have proposed to delete this entire section because already dispute resolution has been taken care of by the Communications and Multimedia Appeals Tribunal. We have agreed that we should have one. As I conclude seconding this Bill, we are all in support of the media. I want to urge all Kenyans to go through this Bill. When we passed the Kenya Information and Communications (Amendment) Bill, we were surprised as a Committee that quite a number of the Members of Parliament and even Senators, were not even aware of what we were discussing. Many of those who gave their comments were commenting on the Media Council Bill, which we are discussing today, yet they were supposed to be discussing the Kenya Information and Communications (Amendment) Bill. Therefore, I want to urge all Kenyans to go through this Bill. When I talk about all Kenyans, they include Members of Parliament, Senators, Kenya Union of Journalists, the Kenya Correspondents Agency, CFK, Public Relations Society of Kenya and everybody else."
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