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    "id": 1060380,
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    "speaker_name": "Kangundo, Muungano",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Fabian Muli",
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        "legal_name": "Fabian Kyule Muli",
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    "content": "the business you are doing. Considering the huge traffic jams we have, this is the best time we need to come up with measures on how we can deal with things of the Law of Contract. Providing for signing of the Law of Contract digitally is a way of making doing business easy. So, I appreciate the fact that in the Law of Contract, we will have a provision for digital signing of documents. Previously, signing documents digitally was not considered legal. Looking at the Registration of Documents Act, this is where Kenyans cry a lot when they seek to acquire birth certificates and national identity cards, certificates of good conduct and passports. Nowadays, these documents can be acquired through the e-citizen platform. We congratulate our former Minister, Hon. Matiang’i, for ensuring that Kenyans can apply for the documents online. Despite this development, we still have a lot of challenges with regard to booking time. If you book an appointment for processing a passport, you will be invited to go to the Immigration Offices after two months. Why is it taking too long? When it comes to the certificate of good conduct for our youths, it takes too long for one’s fingerprints to be taken. So, despite these registrations, there are still some challenges the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Interior needs to address to ensure that the processes are faster. Also, on the issue of Birth Certificates, there is hue and cry across the whole country. Every constituency has similar challenges. The Registration of Documents Act has brought online registration. It is also high time the Ministry of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government ensured that birth certificates can be digitised so that people can get this vital document without constraints. The Company Law Act had a long procedure which made registration of a company a big deal. You can register companies online, but still there are challenges. We want people to do business and we want them to pay taxes. I do not know why you keep asking people for documents when they have ID cards. People need to be given opportunity to register companies. A company is another way of encouraging our youth to do business. I do not know why we keep asking for too many documents to register a company. I recognise the fact that the Company Act has brought online registration. You can now officially do online registration of your company, but we need to remove some of the documents we keep asking our youth to attach when they seek to register companies. Another issue about the business law is that we have the Surveyors Act. It is very funny if you see the law they use. They do not recognise the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) maps. Every map that we use even for roads, we use GCP maps. Even now when we are going to satellite mapping, the one used by surveyors is for GCP. So, I will appreciate the fact that the majority have seen that in the Surveyors Act, some activities can be digitised. That is why I support and say that we need to encourage satellite mapping because boundaries with people’s land demarcation is a challenge. The other issue is about insolvency. He has given five days. Earlier on, one could not know when they are going to declare the document public. The business law has given five days to declare full information about insolvency. As I conclude, I would like to say that the land registry may have been removed. This country is crying about the Ministry of Lands. Our people are facing challenges because of land registration. In my Constituency of Kangundo, the Judiciary has money, but they cannot build their office block because the Registrar has not given them a title deed. I urge the Leader of the Majority Party to also think about bringing laws that will digitise land registration processes. The Judiciary has been given money, but they cannot build offices because of a title deed and yet the land is there. It was allocated in the 1990s, but it is not registered to date. With those few remarks, I support. 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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