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    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "coming from and distributing it in a chain that he knows. Therefore, this Bill is giving the police the opportunity, the right and the way to attack and approach the whole issue. They will not just tell you that now you are in possession of this. No! I am reading this together with the article of evidence in terms of the way Hon. Millie talked about Penal Code 118. The police will no longer just tell you that you have been found in possession of this. There must now be evidence through this Bill. The way the Committee has worked on this Bill is really good and I am in support. Let us now see the change in how the internal security will have to contain the flow of the narcotics in the country. The definition of the law enforcement as per this Bill has really been enhanced in terms of whoever is found with this kind of substance both in possession of the drug or anything related to the drug has a way he has to be arraigned in the court of law. Therefore, that being the situation, at least courts have been given the direction on how they have to specifically handle the whole process. In the offences, there is the issue of conspiracy in terms of if you conspire, how you will be dealt with has been provided for. Conspiracy and possession of the drug is well explained in this Bill and with that, it will be very easy. It is not good enough to possess, but even to conspire in itself is an offence in this Bill. Many a times, it has been put that you conspire and there is no evidence of conspiracy but for this specific one, this Committee has brought up the issue and I feel it has done a good work in terms of understanding what is really happening in real life. It is very difficult to put what is happening in the society on paper but this Committee has tried to put what is happening in society to real situation on paper. Finally, there is the issue of communication and interception of communication and the admissibility of intercepted communication. The Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security has to really look at this issue of communication very keenly together with the misuse of the Cyber Crimes Act. It has to link the two. I have not understood how the Committee has handled it in terms of the interception of communication. I beg that Hon. Kaluma listens to me on this. You will help us know how you have linked up the issue of interception of communication and the admissibility of intercepted communication if you jointly read it together with the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act so that we do not have a lacuna where this law is going to aid somebody to abet a crime using the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act. So, it is a request to them that they really link it. Otherwise, when I read it as a layman, I see a crossbreed between the two. We can look at this when we get to the Committee of the whole House stage, so that we understand how we can tie the two together. With those few remarks, I beg to support the Bill."
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