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    "id": 913535,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I would like to support that we pass this budget as it is, noting that there is a sizable allocation that will be going to the struggling national broadcaster. However, even as we make this allocation, I think I should join the Member for Ndaragwa, Hon. Jeremiah Kioni, in reading the riot act to people who are sitting on the board and the secretariat of the national broadcaster. At this moment, this is a struggling entity. It is struggling not for any other reason, but for lack of leadership. In a time when the national broadcaster should be providing leadership in our journey towards the new and emerging media, we find that they are not even showing up in what we call tracking of ratings in the country’s broadcasting scene. When we are talking about a viewership of below 2 per cent with such a heavy investment by the Government, then I think it is time we did a complete overhaul not only of the secretariat as we did with the new appointment of a managing director, but also checking who sits on these boards and what are their interests. They cannot have conflict of interest by sitting at the helm in the board of the national broadcaster while pushing private businesses that end up in a predicament like we saw last year where the national broadcaster was not even able to broadcast the World Cup. This means that someone had cut a deal to go and make money out of the World Cup. Even as we pass this budget, the onus is on the people who are leading this organisation all the way from the Ministry The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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