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    "id": 1030038,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marakwet West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. William Kisang",
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        "legal_name": "William Kipkemoi Kisang",
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    "content": "I want tell the House that the nominee is very competent. She told us she is a team leader. While at the IEBC, she did so much. She promised us that she is going to ensure that the Directorate of Data Protection will be in place within a year and she will employ competent staff who will assist her. If you look at the requirements for appointments, you will also need some knowledge on ICT and data science. Among the directors that she is going to employ, there will be those with relevant knowledge in ICT and data science. We will also have opportunity as a country to register data processors and data controllers. At the IEBC where she worked, she is one of the elitist in terms of data controllers and data processors. She said there will be no conflict of interest as she is going to resign as an employee and join the Ministry in charge of ICT as a Data Commissioner, if this House approves. I wanted to also report that as a Committee we have said, going forward, we want this particular Data Commissioner to be independent. We will be coming back in the course of next Session, next year, when the directorate is set to delink from the Ministry of ICT, so that there is no interference by the Ministry and the commission is independent completely. With all those remarks, we want to thank the Members very much for their contributions. We congratulate the lady and if the House approves, I believe soon with a court case that compelled the Executive to appoint a Data Commissioner, Huduma Namba can be released and issued to Kenyans. Hon. Speaker, I beg to reply."
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