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    "id": 1030019,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. As my colleague Hon. Atandi has said, I also had reservations about her appointment which arose from two issues that are very clear. I come from a fishing community and once you land and people find a rotten fish, most buyers will not touch your consignment because one of them is rotten. Having worked at the IEBC in 2013 and 2017 and without doubt having had disputed and contested elections, it is practically impossible to believe that she emerged without blemish. But we also say in our community that you can remove the rotten fish, clean the rest, dry them up, pick one that is not badly rotten, go sell it and it will be bought. I went for catechism classes and we were taught the story of Saul on the road to Damascus. I believe she has walked that route and she could be believing that Kenya is more important than serving restricted political intentions of that particular time. As I support, I have an issue about the women affair. Looking at the interview results, she beat two men. So, this clamour by women to be doled out freebies without putting a fight is something that should be removed from their minds. They are capable of competing like anybody else against anybody. I think it is important for our women wherever they are to know it is time to stand up and be counted so as to avoid being treated like flower girls. We should not only dole to you jobs that require special treatment. The position of Data Commissioner is critical. In this country whichever way we look at it, elections will always be contested and telecommunication misuses people’s data. Many a times you receive calls and Short Message Service (SMS) and wonder where they came from. I can amuse you that during the last election, my opponent sent me a message requesting me to vote him in the ODM party primaries. When I got that information in my telephone, it emerged that it was picked from M-PESA data of Safaricom. It is important for the Data Commissioner to work and ensure that this kind of nonsense stops once and for all. We are talking of the Huduma Namba, which is a critical set of data. If we do not find a way of protecting it, it will become a scam and sham. Many of us receive many calls from Kamiti Prison saying, “Please, open the door we are outside here and have come to kill you. Give us money or we are coming for you now.” We believe that with the new Act, plus her office, she has no choice because she is on her way to Damascus. She will demonstrate that the past blemish was not her making, but an act of being guilty by association. So, she is clean and has redeemed herself for bigger things in life. Hon. Speaker, with those few remarks, I support."
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