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    "id": 768845,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/768845/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "in one way or another he has been affected directly. Some of us have been affected indirectly unlike him and Hon. Kiarie. For a long time as a country we have channeled our minds on natural and underground resources. We have forgotten that a lot of money nowadays is channeled towards talent development. Those who earn a lot in this world are great women and men of talent. Hon. Kiarie has mentioned Bill Gates who in 2001 was earning an approximate of Kshs.40,000 per second. If you do a bit of mathematics it means per minute you multiply that amount by 60, per hour you multiply by another 60, per day you multiply by 24 and then per year you multiply by 364 or 365 days. It is even overwhelming to imagine the amount of money that individual used to earn. As a country this is what we are not seeing in our young men and women and that is why this amendment Bill is overdue. We need to move with speed and make sure that we protect our young men and women. As a country we are facing a problem of unemployment. If we have to create employment the first place we should channel all our effort is supporting talent. This will also touch on the protection of the rights of the Maasai as a cultural community because they have maintained their culture for many decades and have not benefited. Many times you find people stealing their rights and because there is no protection from copyright they end up losing resources which would have economically jump-started them. In as much as we protect the men and women of talent we also need to protect the consumers. The problem is that we pass Bills in this House and we do not follow-up on implementation. Therefore, these Bills become an avenue for a few people like the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) and our police to make quick money by harassing consumers. When implementing we should ensure that penalties, specifically target offenders and not consumers. If we harass consumers, Hon. Kanyi and Kiarie will tell you that the market will shrink. There are many copyrights we need to protect, even the copyright of swearing in our President. This is because I have heard there are people who want to copyright and swear somebody else. Since the current President of the Republic of Kenya was sworn in by the Judiciary using a Bible and the Army… I gather from rumours that some people want to copy that and use a Christian Religious Education (CRE) textbook to swear somebody on 12th December. Since, it was an army affair and there was 21 gun salute, I have heard that they will prick 21 balloons instead. We need to move the Copyright (Amendment) Bill with speed to make sure it is implemented to the latter so that we can protect our youth and create employment in this industry. I am sure the rest of the world is moving in that direction. I support the amendment Bill in totality."
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