[kictanet] Being charged to play radio!?

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Feb 19, 2008 11:28 AM, nancy bosire <bozaya at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> There are people going round asking for a fee of Ksh.1950 so as to allow
> any one to play music in public e.g companies.. anybody else aware of
> this? apparently this was on TV yesterday (i did not catch news or had a
> chance to read the paper).
>
> my questions..
>
> which body enacted this? CCK  or the ministry of Info Comm ( Hon.
> Bitange?)
> is there a site that has the info on how this will work? deadlines, the
> rates etc etc
> who will regulate this?
>

You'd need to find out if the law relating to radio licenses/permits was
repealed.
Remember those days when you had to pay for radio permit whenever buying a
new set? And I
remember vaguely that it was supposed to be an annual fee but nobody
bothered to renew after
the first payment:-)
This fee was payable to KBC (maybe it was channeled to the govt, dunno).
With the advent of
liberalization of the airwaves, I think the fee/permit was overtaken by
events but I don't ever remember
if the relevant section of the law was repealed, so the law might still be
in force and probably folks
from KBC are enforcing it. If not them, then someone from the MCSK of Kenya
can enlighten you
on this as it may be falling within their domain.



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