4 Jun 2020 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is one Member who is here who has requested to speak, but he does not have a card. I can donate one minute to him and then I will have four minutes.
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4 Jun 2020 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to reply. I want to take this opportunity to thank the Members of the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation for the tireless time that they put into this Bill. I also want to thank all the Members who have contributed today on this Bill.
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4 Jun 2020 in National Assembly:
It is good to note what Hon. T. J. Kajwang’ said on KeNHA. Clauses 4 and 10 of the Bill say that the member of the County Executive Committee (CEC) who is in charge of advertising will consult and get consent from KeNHA. However, it is important to report to this House that in the past, there has been three court cases on this clause, especially on the issue between county governments and KeNHA. The Association of Practitioners in Advertising say that this is purely a county function. At the same time, we also know that the roads are owned ...
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4 Jun 2020 in National Assembly:
Secondly, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, is on harmonised regulations. It important that we will take note of what Members have said, that it is not good to have laws across the counties but each county can come up with their own regulations. In fact, we have put in the Bill what we call “rate-cut”. We are saying that each county will have to come up with rates for advertisements for each of the areas within the county, so that the rates are harmonised. Sometimes you are maybe
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4 Jun 2020 in National Assembly:
charged Kshs20,000 per square metre, while other counties will charge Ksh100,000 while others will charge Kshs5,000.
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4 Jun 2020 in National Assembly:
It will be important if they come up with harmonised rates so that it is uniform and the business community will know the rates when they are doing their planning, instead of a haphazard way of charging for licences.
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4 Jun 2020 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to reply and thank this House for supporting. If any Member has any amendments, we can discuss them during the Committee of the whole House and see how we can support them.
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29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Chairman. I seek the same clarification that Hon. Nyamita asked the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Vote 1122 is increasing Ksh200 million that had been reallocated as recurrent estimates to go to what the Member for Wajir North said. He said that people on the ground do not know anything about what is happening in the country. So, we reallocated Ksh200 million to KBC and MCK for local television and radio stations. I do not know where the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee got Ksh200 million to take to Vote 1122. We had ...
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29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly:
Yes. We cleared that issue yesterday with the Budget and Appropriations Committee.
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