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    "id": 511653,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Elachi",
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also want to support what Sen. Hassan has said. The Senate needs to understand whether certain mechanisms that have been put in place to ensure that the media houses are back on air. We need to ask ourselves whether the set- top boxes available can serve all Kenyans. The Communication Authority of Kenya should guide us to understand if the rolling of the programme is going to be friendly to Kenyans or discriminatory. More importantly also, we need to know, through the Report that the Committee was to table in this House whether, indeed, the issues that were raised at that time between the Government and the three media houses have been finalised. We need to be clear that it will never happen again because the main concern of the Senate, as an institution, is to ensure that the Constitution is adhered to. We must ensure that Kenyans have information. That is our role. With regard to the issue of set-top boxes going to the rural areas, I do not know whether these have any way of being connected to batteries because access to electricity is a problem. Some people in the rural areas use batteries to watch television. So, there are many things the Government should clarify to us and simplify for Kenyans also to understand. If that is in the Petition, we need to see how the petitioner sieves out to focus on a way forward. For now, we are on air and I have not seen media houses complaining. I think we are moving on well. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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