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    "id": 1035305,
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    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I wish to thank Members of the various committees for taking time to go through their work with a fine toothcomb. The Chairs have articulated what the committees deliberated on and brought here either by way of amending or concurring with the Bill. I also agree fully with the sentiments of Hon. Duale about the independent bodies. I confirm that, indeed, we discussed that within the Leadership Retreat on how best we can process business coming from those independent bodies without it being seen that we are interfering with their independence. Hence, that may not be an issue in future. I also want to thank Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah for bringing in the issue of how to protect the young unemployed accountants from being barred from accessing training and yet, they may not be able to pay. It is now very clear that they would not be required to pay. I believe the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and the Members have agreed on a formulation. When we come to the Committee of the whole House, we will propose the formulation on how to protect that category of people who are not employed, do not have an income, but are desirous of joining the professional body for regulation. This is so that money does not become a barrier for them to enter into the regulation pipeline. I believe we have a win-win situation for that. I also want to alert Members on the following. I know there are some concerns on data. Hon. Otiende has said much on opening up of data. Hon. Ichung’wah has also mentioned the same thing. The people who sign up to the Official Secrets Act do so because of certain… They are exposed to those secrets. We expect that they will not divulge the information. I am sure that if you turned Hon. Nyikal up-side-down, overnight, there are things he will not tell you and yet he knows them. There are things that I know but I will not tell you. This is because of our own exposure and what we sign. I think it is important we extend that. I have seen some amendments come in within other initiatives that are planning to amend the Constitution. One of the things that are being enshrined is data rights within the Bill of Rights. Again, there will be protection of people within the Bill of Rights in terms of the electronic data that you have. Once you sign the Official Secrets Act, it is known that the data that you access through your phones could also be… In the USA, for example, the twitter accounts belonging to the outgoing President have already been taken over and the data has been archived because it is considered as official secrets. I think that is part of the thing that we should know, going forward, is that whatever you have kept electronically in your head, can be downloaded and then you can walk away without any official secret. How you download what is in the head is through conscience. What is contained within your phones and everything else that was there should be a matter for the State. I want to thank everyone for agreeing. So that we can make progress, allow me to ask that even as we move to the next stage, please, let us move with the same co-operation. That way, we will prosecute this Bill to its logical conclusion in the next couple of minutes. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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