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    "id": 956543,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marakwet West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. William Kisang",
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        "legal_name": "William Kipkemoi Kisang",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I take this opportunity to thank the Executive for bringing this Treaty to the House in November last year. Even though they took more than six years to submit the Treaty to the House, I thank them. Secondly, I urge the Government that as soon as the House approves this Treaty, to lobby the remaining two nations to make them 30, so that the Treaty can be ratified. We are number 28. I said those who have ratified are 26, but they are 27. Kenya will be number 28. I also thank the Committee for taking its time to move around doing public participation and coming up with this Report. Thank you, Hon. Members. I thank those who contributed today led by the Committee Members, the Vice-Chair and all the Members who got opportunity to contribute. We have taken your comments positively. Just the other day, we passed the Copyright Bill and we will ensure that when overhauling the Copyright Bill, all these comments that have been made this afternoon to help the artists will be incorporated. It is not that we do not have a law. We have a law, but there is something missing. It is like most of the artists do not know that we have a law. There are some middlemen who we call brokers. The brokers in the middle take advantage of our artists or what we call the Collective Management Organisations (CMOs). Sometimes in 2017, one particular CMO collected over Kshs1 billion and paid less than Kshs10 million as royalties. They paid royalties of less than Kshs10 million. They spent close to over Kshs950 million on expenses. Going forward, when we come up with a proper copyright law to repeal the current law, we will be very strict to ensure that expenses by CMOs are limited to a certain percentage. Just like in other jurisdictions, expenses should not be more than 30 per cent of the collection. Currently, they spend more than 90 per cent. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thank all the Members who have contributed for their patience this afternoon. It is now my humble pleasure to reply and ask that the putting of the Question to this Motion be deferred under Standing Order No.53(3) until the sitting of tomorrow afternoon."
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