Ndiritu Muriithi

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 221 to 230 of 472.

• 20 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the spirit of collective responsibility and as a Government Assistant Minister, I want to speak for the Government and say that we support what the Committee has recommended and appreciate as the other speakers who have spoken before me, the timely manner in which they have dispatched their duty. view
• 20 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Much obliged, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Let me say that I am not an engineer, but I did clearly hear the Mover explain that, in fact, technically, the reason the interference occurred is because in the Chamber, we had equipment that uses Ultra High Frequency (UHF), and that at the event at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC), where the signal is thought to have come from, the equipment that was used there was itself using UHF. view
• 20 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this, technically – and I will get to the point in a moment – is the reason--- When you broadcast or you are transmitting signals and it is a wave, if two separate equipments broadcast at the same frequency, one wave can overrun the other and that is how that sound or that transmission found its way into the equipment that was in this Chamber. view
• 20 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: This is the reason, as a country, we are moving to digital transmission. In digital transmission, the transmission is in such a way that two transmitters cannot overlay and, therefore, you cannot actually interfere with the transmission of the next person. view
• 20 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this – in light of the debate that has been going on – needs to be clarified because this country has committed itself as many other countries around the globe to going towards digital transmission. What it requires is to build a digital network which is akin to a road network. You build a road and all the road users; all the vehicles and so on follow that route. If this is not well understood, the goings on of the last two days can create a lot of confusion. A couple of years ago, this ... view
• 20 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is the position of the Government as well. Our key question is about local content in broadcast. This is because what is broadcast has a lot of effect on what we think and so on. It also has a lot of effect on local drama, film and so on. So, what we should really be concerned about is the extent of local content and I think the Government has been firm on this; that as we migrate to digital content, we expect well upwards of 40 per cent of what is broadcast to be ... view
• 20 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if our children are brought up on a menu of say, North American culture in music, arts and film, then the attitudes that they will develop will be those of North Americans. I am not saying that there is anything wrong with that but our strategic interest is for us to be able to build pride in ourselves and be proud of whom we are. Therefore, the key question is not the builder of the toll road but the key question is the vehicles that pass through that toll road and that is about local ... view
• 20 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Therefore, I would like to urge that there should be no reason whatsoever for us to be very anxious about who is to build the digital network. Of course, in a competition when bidders are bidding for a toll road or to build a digital network, because the winning bidder will derive some revenue, you can expect that those who did not win the bid are not happy. This is because, obviously, there is revenue involved in the operation of the digital network. Therefore, this debate should be seen in that context. view
• 20 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support the recommendations of this Committee and urge my colleagues that we support and adopt this Report. view
• 20 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view