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"speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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"content": "We have the Kenya Gazette, an important Government document where important matters are advertised or published. If you ask Kenyans what is a Kenyan Gazette and how it looks like, I do not think 1 per cent might be aware. Our learned lawyers in the Judiciary might know because that is where you will get them. This is where matters like succession issues are put. That is where, for example, somebody wants to defraud other siblings of their property. They go and publish something in the Kenya Gazette where you secretly collude with the people who publish that document. It is hid somewhere until time lapses and damage is done. When you try to retract it, you are told time is gone. There are issues like the one of auctioneers where we are told that once you publish what you are going to sell or do it in the newspapers, maybe, two dailies, you have disseminated information. Here we are talking of land in Kapenguria, deep hills of Meru and any other place. When you publish in Daily Nation, Star or Standard Newspaper, it will be seen in Meru, Mau, Nairobi, Mombasa and elsewhere. It will not reach those corners of the place where that land is. The auctioneer will then come and sell your land because you will be asked when you published the land, when it was in the papers and which paper it was. Maybe, that fellow is an illiterate. He might have seen that paper and could not tell whether his shamba would be sold or not. More so, we need this information to be passed in many languages, including vernacular, so that one can tell what is written there. I, therefore, strongly support this Bill. We need information published in the right way, within the right time-frame and time necessary given for everybody to get to know what is happening. We now have the social media, website, newsletters and FM stations. During President Moi’s era, we used to have Kenya Broadcasting Corporation only. So many things were going unnoticed and things were being done by a very few people in this country. We thank God because today we have many radio FM’s which are telling people left, right and center what is happening. Once people are informed, they get enriched and get to know how their country is moving. If information is assimilated properly, it will help us save people from being ignorant of information. Look at the issue of El Nino rains. Information has even been passed through some media channels that there is some money which has been spared to save people from the El Nino rains. Last week, I was in my constituency, Igembe Central, Meru County, and everybody was flocking into my house and office. They were asking me about the money that is meant for ElNino . That is because their homes and schools had been destroyed by heavy rains. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, yesterday, a church was marooned by water in Kiutini, Igembe Central Constituency. My constituents are asking me for money that was set aside to mitigate the effects of the rains as a result of the El Nino phenomenon. As a Member of Parliament, I cannot tell where that money is. If information about the availability of that money is passed properly, we could be telling them to go to the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government, the Ministry of Devolution and Planning, or to the counties to access it. That information is being withheld. We should have it so that, at the end of the day, we can also tell our people what is happening. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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