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    "id": 87151,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/87151/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 60,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Khaniri",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of Information and Communications",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 171,
        "legal_name": "George Munyasa Khaniri",
        "slug": "george-khaniri"
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    "content": "(b) The present regulatory framework on non-ionizing radiation cuts across the Kenya Bureau of Standards which sets or adopts the standards to be applied in the country; the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), which undertakes equipment type approval and stipulates the deployment parameters that service providers must comply with and the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), which approves specific site installations of electromagnetic radiation sources. My Ministry, through the CCK and the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, through the Radiation Protection Board, has established a memorandum of understanding under which the said organs of Government have commenced audits of cellular mobile-based trans-receiver stations to establish compliance with the standards in force. Several regulatory bodies, for example, the Kenya Bureau of Standards, NEMA, Kenya Civil Aviation Authority and the CCK have also in the past five years, worked together to address the concerns raised by the public with respect to Base Trans-Receiver Station Terminals (BTS) infrastructures and so far, come up with an industry code of practice which, among other things, requires operators to adhere to electromagnetic field standards recommended by the ICNIRP. Regarding the matter of compensation, I would like to say that compensation for injuries occasioned by such facilities will be based on establishment of a court of law that a particular firm has contravened the law with respect to the standards and compliance with regulatory conditions in force."
}