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    "id": 620155,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/620155/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for this opportunity. This is an important Bill and I thank the distinguished Senator for Makueni County for bringing it. If you look around the country, there are a lot of distortions or distorted images of outdoor advertising. There is lack of order and what one can call proper planning and very haphazard placements of advertisement. We know that outdoor advertisement is big business. In this country last year alone, outdoor advertisement raised close to KShs12.5 billion with the lions share going to Nairobi, Mombasa and the other big towns. However, even the small towns in the remotest parts of the counties can raise revenue. In so doing, one would want to see order as the Bill proposes. One would also want to see that even the charges that are levied against those who advertise are not extortion charges, but those that are consistent with the weight and growth of the economy and the ability to help those who advertise grow. That is why I feel that this Bill is timely and important. It will regulate a sector that has been oscillating on its own. I am quite sure that the Kshs12 billion raised last year from advertising in the country could be doubled if there were regulations and proper management because certain advertisement sites are out of reach from local authorities and levels of accountability. Haphazard charges make it difficult for citizens of each county to benefit from the revenue raised from these advertisements. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to speak briefly to some of the clauses in the Bill so that the sponsor of the Bill can, at the Committee Stage, be able to make it better if he finds my views acceptable. I want the distinguished Senator to look at Clause 3(1)(d)(2) where it is exempting advertising relating to religious, educational, cultural, recreational and medical institutions or institutions of similar character. These institutions The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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