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    "id": 402574,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Rege",
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        "legal_name": "James Kwanya Rege",
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    "content": "just as in any other country. Yesterday I was very saddened when I read in the DailyNation that the media in Ethiopia has more freedom than the media in Kenya. I have been travelling to Ethiopia for many years. Until today, Ethiopia does not have a free ICT sector. The Government has a grip on the ICT sector in Ethiopia. Therefore, they do not have as much freedom as we have in this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the complaints section was not supposed to be eliminated. Therefore, I concur with hon. Nyokabi that it must be reinstated because the tribunal is too high up in the hierarchy. The complaints commission should be there to handle preliminary issues. Anybody with further complaints can go to the tribunal, after which he can go to the High Court if he is not satisfied. So, we will have to look at that particular bit. In fact, the Bill is not cast in stone. The media stakeholders in Kenya should not go out to say that Kenya is the worst place for journalists to operate in, and that the National Assembly is gagging them. It is not true. If there is anything that we need to look at, why can we not just sit down and take a look at it? We are all human beings. We need them just as much as they need us. We will hear the rest between now and the Third Reading as we move towards concluding the enactment of this Bill. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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