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    "id": 851579,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to support this Bill by Sen. Poghisio. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very timely Bill. I get excited when I see Bills which give work to the CECs in county governments. I also get excited when I see potential for revenue generating activities in county governments. Before I commented on this Bill, I had to go and talk to my dear friend, Sen. Poghisio, because I would wish to bring a few amendments to this Bill. This is because technology will help this Bill. Mr. Speaker, Sir, one of my pet peeves is seeing how the big multinational corporations in Kenya paint buildings built along the highways. The minute you leave Nairobi County and get to Kiambu County, every building there has paintings of Safaricom, Airtel, East African Breweries Limited (EABL), SportPesa or even Betika . This is being done in a very awkward way and county governments are losing revenue, which they should get so as to improve our counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I highly support this Bill because I see an avenue where county governments can use location-based data analytics technology. This technology will help us to clearly indicate that, ‗in this county headquarters, these are the areas that we have designated for advertisements.‘ Those are some of the amendments I would wish to introduce, of course in consultation with the sponsor of the Bill. These amendments are meant to further expand this Bill to include technology, such that before you introduce any advertisements in any county, that county should say ‗this is our spatial plan.‘ The physical planning will enable you to see where there is a lot of traffic. In this traffic, because you do not want anything to hinder any sort of development, we can designate specific locations as areas where we could have a 20 metre billboard. Mr. Speaker, Sir, what is happening right now in Nairobi, for instance, is that there are huge billboards in every roundabout. Nairobi is doing very well. I know that the Women Representative for Nairobi came up with project ‗adopt-a-light.‘ That was the first time I saw a county or a city council then benefiting from outside advertisement. This Bill will now give other county governments an opportunity to tap into this market, whose research in Kenya currently shows that earnings are far lower compared to what all these local governments can tap into. Mr. Speaker, Sir, all of us – including myself – spent millions paying for billboards during the campaigns. That is the only time you can say that somebody in that business was benefiting. However, how much of that money went into the county government coffers? To have a billboard in Nairobi and even in Narok during the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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