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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank Sen. M. Kajwang' for this Statement. This is not a debate on the technology. It is not a debate or statement on whether it is important or not. What it is simply saying is: let us look at the regulations. If there are regulations, at what stage they are and the regulations be looked at again, so that it takes care of the various categories of the drones. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have been privileged to serve in the communications docket, but also as the Chairman of the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority. I do understand what the drones can do. I agree with him that some of the drones are not even worth the levies for their licences. Some of the drones are simply cameras; they are flying cameras. They do nothing else. They are good for the young generation to take good pictures and things like that. Those should be categorized separately. I think that is what Sen. Kajwang' is trying to bring out. Let us find a way of identifying which drones are dangerous, what can be abused and then those that are simply used by families should not require licences, like a pilot’s license. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the best thing is to say at what point can we retrieve or look again at the regulations and see how they can be improved. That also means that the Committee on Delegated Legislation be involved in this. That is all, so that we do not come here and start discussing the merits and demerits of drones. That is not what it is about. It is about those regulations and what we can do to make sure they are user friendly, but also take into account that drones have become common; that the more we continue to protect ourselves from them in terms of not letting them in, other countries are getting them in very freely and using them. I agree that we should look at it. I do not even know how it escaped our attention or how we managed to let it pass that way without looking critically like that Statement has said. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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