<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>This is a tough one. One can almost see where Bwana Mutua is coming from. Yet on the other hand Bwana Wangusi is absolutely correct. The two gentlemen should meet over a cup of coffee and agree how to execute their mandates without stepping on each other's toes :-)<br><br><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 / 0770906375</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 21 Apr 2016, at 3:52 PM, Grace Githaiga via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Libre Baskerville', Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15.008px; line-height: 22.512px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Kenya Film Classification Board is overstepping its mandate by policing content aired by broadcasters, the CA has said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Libre Baskerville', Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15.008px; line-height: 22.512px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Communication Authority Director general Francis Wangusi said on Thursday that the KFCB is only mandated with rating aired content, not controlling it.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Libre Baskerville', Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15.008px; line-height: 22.512px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We are not aware of the parameters they use to classify content," Wangusi said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Libre Baskerville', Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15.008px; line-height: 22.512px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"As far as we know they are only supposed to advise on terms of general viewing and parental guidelines on above-18 content. That is the far they can go."</p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Libre Baskerville', Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15.008px; line-height: 22.512px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wangusi noted that the authority has the sole mandate of monitoring programming codes.</span><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/04/21/film-board-overstepping-mandate-in-policing-aired-adverts-ca_c1336402" target="_blank">http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/04/21/film-board-overstepping-mandate-in-policing-aired-adverts-ca_c1336402</a></div> </div>
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