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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, for the lawyers, I would propose we reserve this slot for a young lawyer. You have proposed that we should get an advocate of the High Court of Kenya nominated by the Law Society of Kenya. Sen. Cherarkey, I will propose that we reserve that slot for the young lawyers. If we say “an advocate” and give it to a 67-year-old, that person may not be in tune with the happenings. Let this be reserved for the young lawyers. The beauty with the Law society of Kenya is that they have an association, so it will be very easy. Going to publishing, there are a number of Kenyans who write articles in our weekend editions of The Sunday Nation, Standard . I want to spend one minute to 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": "eulogize the late Pheroze Nowrojee who wrote articles. I think the last was penned last year. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am told from those articles, the newspapers pay Kshs100,000 per article. Now, if this thing is well regulated and you have somebody who is talented in penning articles to these newspapers, you are talking about somebody who is earning an income of Kshs400,000 a month just by writing an article to our local newspapers over the weekend. I know there is a time one of our lawyers, George Kegoro, used to also write for"
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"content": "Each piece, every Sunday, you read George Kegoro's article, he was pocketing some good money. That is what we want for our young, talented professionals. I do not know whether Cleophas Malala, who was a Senator with us here and who pens plays that are sometimes controversial, but plays that capture the imagination of the nation, gets any earnings from writing those plays. Nonetheless, if you have a law like this that takes care of all these talented Kenyans, somebody will earn an income. I am sure it is not just Malala who can write plays. However, if people know that the country recognises their talent, they know that if you write a play, there are chances that you will make good money that may change your fortunes, you will attract many people. I always wonder, when I grew up, I knew of Bata Bullets, a company that made shoes in Limuru. However, the Nike boots that are used for making football are not associated with any company in Kenya. Therefore, if people are creative enough, we can also come up with a new invention. We can create a new brand of football boots that is made in Kenya through a company like Bata bullets. There are many musicians who are young. In Kisii, I know there is one called Omosayansi. I have mentioned Embarambamba. All these guys sing songs, but if you visit their homes, there is nothing to show for it, compared to other celebrities like Maria Carey, who have made good money from singing and the likes. I want to support this Bill by Sen. Eddy. I hope that it can be enacted into law, so that our locals can enjoy. I hope the Government will support them. Let us give them some tax waivers for a while and ensure we make our young people smile. Madam Temporary Speaker, as somebody said, if we do not put money in the pockets of these young people, we are courting a revolution. This is one way of coming up with innovative ways of ensuring that our young people have money in their pockets. I carried a document that was tabled before the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments (CPAC) by my County of Nyamira. When you look at it on the face of it, you will think that there is a group somewhere of youths or women that have benefited. If you look at the receipts that I have, it says ‘a cash sale from a group called Woteki Self-Help Group’. Madam Temporary Speaker, when you look at the receipt, it tells you that this group hired a Public Address System to the County Government of Nyamira, and they were paid Kshs25,000. However, I am sure, if you looked up, you would never find such a group called Woteki Self-Help Group. Nonetheless, if this is something that was truly happening on the ground, you would be saying; we are helping some people somewhere on the ground that have a talent 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": "of hiring you a Public Address (PA) system and they also act as a Master of Ceremony (MC). Madam Temporary Speaker, however, if you followed this Wotek Self-Help group, you will find that this group does not exist because that receipt has got no date and it does not say that the payments came from the County Government of Nyamira. If you look at another one I have just picked, you will see another one called JUDKIP Enterprises. It says that these were paid some Kshs25,000 on 24th February, 2021, to act as MC in a function that took place in Nyamira. If this was to be something that is happening on the ground, we would all be celebrating and saying; there are people who are benefiting from devolution. However, chances are that these receipts were manufactured by somebody at the county and there is no beneficiary on the ground. Therefore, I support this Bill and hope that once it is enacted, it will be transformative and it will assist us to protect intellectual property rights of our young people. We will also create a legal framework that will protect those who have talent, those who are creative and those who are entertaining us on YouTube, etcetera. With these remarks, I will stop there and thank the Senator for Migori, Sen. Eddy Oketch for coming up with this Bill. I also hope that everyone in the industry will remember that it is Sen. Oketch who changed the fortunes of their lives when this Bill eventually becomes an Act."
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"content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I have watched patiently the Senator, my neighbour, as he was closing hoping that he would give me the opportunity to even introduce my support for this Bill. I congratulate my friend, Sen. Oketch Eddy, for such an industrious Bill. In his moving notes, he ran us through the aspects which informed the decision to sponsor such a futuristic Bill. I will go a long way in joining the rest of my colleagues in supporting Sen. Oketch and the Bill he has brought before this House. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am just trying to align my thoughts but I will start by saying that from the statistics which I have picked, the creative industry and the creative sector contributes Kshs38 billion to the economy of this country. These are the statistics of the 2023/2024 Financial Year from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) alongside Kenya Film Corporation (KFC). An amount of Kshs38 billion is such a huge sum of money and in that report, they noted that if it is streamlined and the legislation along the creative industry is refined enough, this amount is not even 50 percent of what the economy of this country can enjoy. Madam Temporary Speaker, this Bill has come at a time when we have to appreciate and monetize the importance of the creative industry. I come from the county of Bomet and in the future, we will definitely name it as the county of music. The reason is because, the entirety of the Kalenjin musicians come from my constituency, Chepalungu. I also would like to mourn one of the legendary musicians, Solomon Manori, who passed on last week. He will be buried on Saturday. He is one of those musicians who have entrenched the importance of art, the importance of music, the importance of talent, 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": "such nurturing and monetizing it. Unfortunately, we lost him out of a situation that he had gotten into and as we bury him, I will be celebrating that gentleman with the support of this Bill, which I know will go a long way in history."
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"content": "ADJOURNMENT"
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"content": " Hon. Senators, it is now 6.30 p.m., time to adjourn the Senate. Sen. Sigei, you have 17 more minutes. The Senate, therefore, stands adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday, 14th May, 2025, at 9.30 a.m."
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