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    "id": 851598,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "This Bill should give some direction because county governments must generate revenue to provide services. Sen. Poghisio at the Committee stage should attain to define some percentages. What percentage of the overall fee payable for the site per month would go to the county government and which will go to the owner of the land or building on which the site stands. If you go to the villages, you will find many owners of properties with billboard sites hardly get anything. People would come and tell you they want to pay your building with Safaricom colours. The owner of the building thinks that they are making his building beautiful but they are money out of it. Next time you find it is another colour and another colour. We need to help people who do not have sufficient knowledge on how to innovatively generate revenue from their assets. This is because if you look at the Constitution, land – which includes buildings – is described as a tool of production. A tool of production must be accompanied by the knowledge that it is a tool of production. Sen. Poghisio, I also wish to look at advertisements that are painted on rocks. You find that someone has land that is rocky. He thinks it is waste land. Someone comes around and says that they want to make the rocks beautiful and he draws a big picture of Tusker beer or, of someone holding a mobile phone. He is charging the beer company or the mobile phone Kshs100,000 a month. The owner of the rock does not even know; he thinks that someone is making his land look beautiful with paintings on his rocks and he is losing income. Some civic education needs to be done. The starting point is to obligate the companies that do this business, that when you go to paint a rock on Sen. Milgo‘s land with a beer bottle, she is entitled to at least 5 or so per cent of the outlay of the advertisement. So even when you are soliciting for the concurrence of the owner of the land, there is a provision for the signature of the owner of the land and an amount payable to the land owner for giving the consent for a construction site on his land. That way, we will be helping people in the rural areas. When you are driving to western and you see on someone‘s land along the highway a huge billboard that is costing quite a substantial sum of money for those advertising there. The owner of the land does not even know that they are entitled to get any money out of it. Another area of regulation that Sen. Poghisio needs to look at in this House is the nuisance that some of these billboards provide. I know there is a general provision you have given, but you will find that the licensing authority either neglect or they do not have the capacity to police order. So, you put your billboard and they licence someone to come put another one in front of yours, and a third one and a fourth. For them, once they have received payment, the end justifies the means. They are doing a disservice to people who are paying money. We need some degree of order that when you are given an opportunity to put a billboard at a popular site, even the height of your billboard must be described and prescribed. So that when you want to put your billboard at two meters, you find them telling you that two meters is already gone, put yours at four meters or a little lower so that everybody gets value for money. if you just get a licence to go put a billboard and you go and obstruct somebody who has paid like during the campaign days when you 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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