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    "content": "feel very good. We encourage you not to be draconian but be good to the House. We have some of your colleagues who sit there and become demi-gods. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Clause 15 states that the Committee shall cause a notice of an application made under section 4 to be published in at least two newspapers with a national circulation in the county. We have to be very careful about this because if you go to a county like Turkana, what two local newspapers could possibly be circulating in the county for people to advertise in other than The Daily Nation and The Standard ? It is a nightmare for you to come from Turkana to advertise in The Daily Nation in Nairobi and it would cost you 10 times. The sponsor of the Bill should cause the committee to maintain a public record that anybody could inspect and see what is being advertised or applied for. There should even be a notice board at their offices on which they put this information for anybody to see. They would probably be obligated to put such information in sub-counties within the county. In any case, if you put an ad in Mavoko, it is not necessary to advertise it and inform the people in Kathiani. If you put an ad in Ikolomani, why would you go to Matungu to tell people that you will put a billboard in Ikolomani? That is actually a local issue because I believe the reason you want the information to be made public is to see if there are any local objections like “ hii shamba ni yangu” and such kind of issues. Therefore, the sponsor of the Bill may have to look at this and make it easy, because if, for example, you want to advertise a small issue that will cost you about Kshs12,000 and you are required to advertise in the two newspapers that circulate in your county, the newspapers will invariably be The Daily Nation, The Standard or The Star . If you want it to be on Sunday, The Star is excluded. To put a little piece of an ad in TheDaily Nation is very expensive. It costs Kshs50,000 for a little thing. If you want to take a quarter page of The Daily Nation, you pay Kshs250,000. If you want to advertise something of a value of Kshs12,000, it defeats logic for you to pay that kind of money to advertise. Let us have a better mechanism that captures the assistance of ordinary people making ordinary advertisements under ordinary circumstances for ordinary business like the ones you see on the road from the airport to here. Those are different and you can treat them differently. You can graduate them depending on the location, the quality of the advertisement and the possible revenues being generated from that kind of advertisement. If the advertiser is a cigarette manufacturing company or a beverage company as big as Coca-Cola, you can impose quite substantial conditions on them because they have the money. But if an advertiser is a group of young people who have come together from university to set up an engineering firm advertising about quick engineers who will do anything for you including empting your septic tank, such cannot be able to pay. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my last point is on Clause 17 which states that a person contravening any provisions of this Act commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six months. That is fine. However, regarding the fine, I would like to encourage that we do two things if possible. If you are a lawyer or the sponsor and you fix a fine of this magnitude, it enhances the value of corruption, which is the problem in this country. For a jail term of six months, a The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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