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Turning Kenya to a pay-tv nation unfair to consumers

Kisumu residents following proceedings at the International Criminal Court on television. [PHOTOS: FILE/ STANDARD]

With a salary of Sh10,000, Dennis Omweno, a waiter in Nairobi says he cannot afford to pay any more bill, no less for television, which he has been getting for free all along.

A father of two, Omweno’s first born is in Standard One in an ‘academy’, his rent is Sh4,000 plus bus fare amounting to Sh3,000 per month.

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