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    "id": 956506,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/956506/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 49,
        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "many parties have ratified, but I am told 26. They would have been 27 if it had come to us much earlier. Most likely the other three parties would have been encouraged and by now it would have some legal binding. I want to again thank the Committee that has made it possible for us to debate the Treaty. There are very important provisions in this Treaty including the fact that it protects performers from discrimination on the basis of nationality or any other such grounds. It ensures that they are paid and paid well and paid like other persons of other nationalities would be paid. That is very important for us as a country. It also makes sure that the original version of a performance is not distorted. There is that protection that is being given to ensure that there is no distortion, mutilation or other modification of the performance, which otherwise would be prejudicial to the reputation of the performers. Further and crucially, this now forms part of the estate of a deceased person. So you can actually see what kind of losses our people may have gone through when we did not have this Treaty. It is important that we finalise on this and encourage the other three members who are likely to ratify to do so quickly, because in so doing, it will have economic benefits to our people. It creates employment, engagement and encouragement. It gives a person a purpose to be alive, because every Kenyan was given life by the creator with a purpose and with a way to provide for himself. Failing to have ratified or identified this kind of a gift before denied those people the opportunity to exercise the gift that was given to them by God."
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