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    "id": 9714,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/9714/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Khaniri",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Information and Communications",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 171,
        "legal_name": "George Munyasa Khaniri",
        "slug": "george-khaniri"
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    "content": "However, I wish to state that, currently, the Board does not have adequate staff to monitor video cafes and showrooms around the country. To address this problem, my Ministry is in the process of recruiting more staff for the Board and subsequently post them at the county level. This will enable the Board to intensify monitoring of contents of films being distributed in video cafes and showrooms. With full capacity, the Board will be able to ensure that all unrated films are prohibited from being exhibited in public places. It is worth noting that the Board’s officers operate within Government working hours and they usually conduct random inspections in liaison with the Provincial Administration and the Administration Police to identify violators of the law. A case in point is the massive raids in Nairobi of video shops suspected to be trading in pornographic film materials and a number of ongoing cases in various parts of the country. In Nakuru, about 19 youth were arraigned in court for watching pornography and in Embu, a video vendor was arrested for selling indecent film materials. Broadcast houses do not submit to the Board their films or programmes for classification. The responsibility of airing rated or classified films or programmes which are suitable for children within watershed period has been exclusively laid upon the media houses. However, some media houses have continued to violate the law despite repeated warnings. The Kenya Films Classification Board has also extensively carried out sensitization programmes about watershed period principles which has included training all mainstream media on watershed principles, monitoring all broadcasters for compliance, sponsoring the best watershed period compliant TV station award during the Third Edition of the KALASHA awards in 2011, facilitating workshops during various film festivals and participating in ASK shows and trade fairs to showcase the Board’s services to the public."
}