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    "id": 1055731,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1055731/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kaiti, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Kivinda",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13353,
        "legal_name": "Joshua Kivinda Kimilu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. One, I want to thank Hon. Elisha for it. I support the Bill but with serious amendments. We know telecommunication has done a lot in this country. Many schools and other institutions have been connected because of telecommunication. Telecommunication supports the economy of this country. I have a problem with splitting communication and banking. These are private businesses. As Members of Parliament, we are not here to tell people how to do their businesses. It is important we give people the opportunity to do their businesses the way they want. Some countries have tried to separate communication and banking and it has never worked. There must be an amendment on this. I ask the Member to listen and propose an amendment on this before we pass this Bill. If we pass it as it is, we will bring problems to this country. When we talk of penalties from mobile con-drives, the CA and the CBK are there to regulate and deal with this. I have no problem with issues like sharing of towers. There are however, some contagious issues we have to consider in this Bill before we pass it. When I bought my first line, it was charging Kshs60 per minute. It is now Kshs3 per minute. There is a lot of improvement in our telecommunication. We cannot say that they are not doing well on that. On the issue of M-Shwari and Fuliza M-Pesa, I want to challenge my brother, Hon. Sankok. I was with him yesterday. I want to inform him that for him to Fuliz a M-Pesa, he has a prerogative to authorise himself to Fuliza M-Pesa, or not. Hon. Sankok has two Safaricom lines. He informed me that he has Fuliza M-Pesa worth Kshs70, 000 in each line. That is why Hon. Sankok…"
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