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    "content": "In this country, those who shout on top of the buildings sometimes should never be believed. I encourage that there must be a distinction when advertisements are along the road and railway reserves, there should be a clause that provides for the sharing of revenue between the county governments and the railway or the highway that owns the road reserves on which most of these billboards are put. If you look at Mombasa Road, the 120 metre way-leave is distorted with all manner of billboards. That money cannot be the county’s, exclusively. It must also be shared with the highway authorities as a generation of revenue for the maintenance of the shoulders of the highways which are damaged when the advertisers come with huge trucks to erect their billboards. Therefore, we should have a clause that will give some percentage of income to the roads or the railways as the case may be. Madam Temporary Speaker, a portion of the revenue collected from the advertisements made in the stadia, should be left with the management of stadia as the county governments take most of the monies for giving services to wananchi who use those facilities. So, we need serious order. In fact, I encourage the rest of the Senators who speak to this to give thought to how we can organise and control this kind of advertisements. Sometimes you go in to a junction of a small town and you see about hundreds of billboards that one cannot notice which is which. Such advertisements should be regulated; that one billboard should be 2 metres away from the other, then they can start erecting; that from 500 metres away is the turning to chakula mzuri hotel, 10 metres away is the turning to beer port and five metres away is the turning to Pokot enterprise. This will allow everybody an opportunity to be seen because the whole purpose of advertisement is to be seen repeatedly and regularly. On clause 7, I encourage the sponsor to provide; although in law you do not have to provide in any legislation for aggrieved parties to go to court because seeking court redress is a right under the Constitution, but it is always neater to indicate that those who are aggrieved may seek the court’s redress. There are those who when they read the law, they do not know that such a law is based on the Constitution. It is good to indicate that if they are unreasonably denied a licence to advertise, they have recourse to a court of law to challenge the administrative decision under the writs of certiorari and mandamus against the committee that has been set in place. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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