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"content": "We want to request county governments, although I have not seen it in this Bill - I hope Sen. Eddy will look into this - let us allow the young people to record the short videos across the country and even pictures without necessarily being subjected to police harassment or enforcement officers from counties. I want to request the young people to shoot these videos. They should record to educate, entertain, encourage and bring the unity of the country. We do not want this to be used as an avenue to incite and destroy the social fabric of our nation. We also want to discourage the content that might not be palatable, like pornography issues. Madam Temporary Speaker, this county is funny. You say something on the Floor of the House, and if somebody somewhere is uncomfortable, they just share your number and say, ‘inject.’ The Data Commissioner of Data Protection Commission must protect Kenyans. Severally, I have been a victim of that. The people who send the messages will use WhatsApp and they will SMS you very bad insulting messages. I want to challenge the Data Commissioner and Data Protection Commission. We have the Bill in place. They must protect us and Kenyans. Somebody cannot wake up and share the number of Sen. Omogeni in Twitter or X and say ‘inject.’ They send you messages the whole night. Consequently, your spouse might think you are the one doing it, but somebody is harassing you somewhere. They are stalking you. I support the Government that all social media like Meta, X or Twitter, TikTok, among others establish their physical offices in Nairobi or in Kenya, so that accountability and transparency can be upheld. By the fact that on X accounts, somebody posts and says, “Speaker Mumma, this is her number, inject,” what are they injecting? In fact, they are injecting the wrong thing. They are not even sending you sensible things. They are even sending Kshs1 bob to your M-Pesa line, which borders harassment. We have moved from physically harassment to harassment through the technology on our phones. Therefore, I request that young people, as they use this forum, to bring order. I did not see the offences, Sen. Eddy. I hope one of the offences is that this scheme should self-regulate and ensure young people do not abuse this space. We want this space even as technology grows. This is a digital and information era, but let us use it for the betterment of this country. I celebrate YouTubers. They are ‘eating’ well. People like Njugush, Crazy Kennar, Flaqo and Mungai Eve. I do not know whether she broke up with the boyfriend, and the YouTube account died. There is also Butita and Obinna. Therefore, these are young people. I know when I say this, my generation will understand what I mean. I know our Clerk Assistant Kavata is aware of this because she is in our generation, therefore, she should be able to understand."
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"content": "has been monetised and I want to give numbers. When you have one million views, you earn between Kshs100,000 and Kshs150,000. It is so beautiful. Which P1 teacher earns Kshs100,000 to Kshs150,000? We must regulate this industry, because this is where there is gold mine. Leave the Kilimapesa in Migori, this is where the gold mine is. Madam Temporary Speaker, can you imagine if you have one million views by just sitting in your house, you are earning Kshs150,000. Additionally, even on Facebook, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "for a thousand views, you are getting between $8 to $20. That is the aspect of monetising the process. If this Bill becomes law, it will be one of the greatest legacies of the Fourth Senate, courtesy of the Chair of the Committee on Roads and Transportation. The young people who are frustrated and do not have opportunities, the 35 per cent of the youth population and the 2.9 million Kenyans who do not have opportunities, will always be grateful. I am happy that the future of young leadership, courtesy of Sen. Eddy, looks very bright and the young people should feel encouraged. Madam Temporary Speaker, they should not feel frustrated, even as we move around. That is why the President is moving for labour mobility and apart from that, traditional jobs. I did not see, and I hope Sen. Eddy will look at this, that the Government is pushing for the establishment of 290 digital hubs. I propose that we should establish digital hubs at the ward level, so that the young people can walk to where Internet is and work on online jobs. That will give them opportunities and protect the creative industry, even in innovations. That is why I was proposing that the Creative Economy Support Bill should read as the Creative Economy and Innovation Support Bill."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, how do we support the young people? I met an artist the other day in Tinderet, and he was only requesting for Kshs10,000 to record a song. Why are we reducing our upcoming artists to beggars? There is a guy called Malot; I think he is from Kaptagat. He is a young man and he is struggling. He wants to record a song and share. Nowadays, it is very easy. You record and release it online, maybe through the YouTube, and you get your views; and with monetization, you will get your money. Therefore, apart from labour mobility, what is important is the establishment of digital hubs across our country. I have seen the role of PWDs in this Bill. I encourage us to give more attention to the issues of PWDs in this country, so that they can have opportunities going into the future. I do not know how we should marry the issue of content creators and the role of PWDs. There is the aspect of punishing and I have seen these incentives. Apart from incentives, the last point I wanted to make is that there will be appropriation of money from Parliament. There is also the aspect of intellectual property. Madam Temporary Speaker, in Parliament and especially our colleagues, in good faith, you will introduce a Bill and you take it to the National Assembly. They write back and say it is a money bill. Then before you know it, someone in the National Assembly publishes. Is that not plagiarism? I hope they will not sabotage this Bill and then before you realize it, reintroduce it in another form and shade, but with the same content. Even as we protect intellectual property rights, we need to ensure the young people have the opportunity of their songs and their creations. We do not want to see plagiarism. There is Samson Maombi from Kisii. I do not know whether Sen. Omogeni knows this. He sings Adventist songs as country music. There is another person who came all the way from Europe and he wanted to play lukumba lukumba. I am happy he had good lawyers. You know, the Kisii Community has many lawyers and brilliant lawyers come from that community led by Sen. Omogeni, the Senior Counsel. Samson Maombi could detect that there was an agenda. The foreigners wanted to finish his songs The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "by plagiarism. How do you protect people like Samson Maombi, who has sung Adventist songs in country music tones? These are intellectual property right, and Madam Temporary Speaker; you are a very senior lawyer in this country. I am happy that you have introduced something called intellectual property rights. There was the issue of shooting. The Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) was closed from Friday to yesterday. We could not access it, and I am told they did dancing waters outside there worth Kshs100 million, but it is dysfunctional. The PSC Commissioner is here, and we know that the KICC is a landmark used by content creators. He should tell KICC to allow young people to use their grounds because it is a heritage of Kenya. However, the KICC is poorly run. The toilets are pathetic. The corridors are badly lit. You see cockroaches and rats walking around in the KICC, and they dare close KICC because Parliament has not paid them money? Madam Temporary Speaker, as much as we are telling the Parliamentary Joint Services to pay money to KICC, the people running it should know it is a heritage, like the National Archives. They should allow young people to go up to the helipad and shoot their short videos. That is the least we can do for the young people. Even Parliament should allow young people to do short videos. We do not need the Gen Z protests for them to access here and shoot videos. We should have an orderly manner on how they can walk into the Chamber with the protection of Serjeant-at-Arms and the organization of the Clerk of the Senate and the National Assembly. Let us open up these spaces for young people to create their content and earn money. That is the least we can do. We cannot create for them jobs. Even for us, we beg for jobs to be here. The only thing we can do is allow them---"
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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, one minute for me to say that I support."
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"content": " Okay, one minute."
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"content": "Even the Senior Counsel says that. Madam Temporary Speaker, I was saying that even us, the Senators, who are here telling the young people to go and look for jobs, could not employ ourselves. We had to go and beg for a job from Kenyans to be here. Therefore, the least we can do is create an enabling environment for content creation. With those remarks, I beg to support this Bill."
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