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    "id": 1074090,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "The Committee on Roads and Transportation, which I am currently chairing, should have looked at these regulations. Regulations are not made in vain. They must intend to achieve a certain end and means that is useful for the day-to-day running of our social and economic affairs. What do we want to attain so much by over-regulating the use of drones? For example, if it is the question of photography, we have google bulbs. A person can zoom into your compound from his or her home, see a car in your parking lot and photograph it. If it is about flying and intrusion into boundaries, in any toy shop abroad, there are helicopters that are flown like drones. One can sum up this regulation on oversensitivity and the trends that we have had on terrorism. It is a question of concern and privacy. However, killing a fly with a hammer will not do something better than what has been done. I agree with the proposals and commit that the Committee of Roads and Transportation will undertake to look at those regulations and their usefulness. We will engage the Cabinet Secretary (SC) and stakeholders to find out why a cameraman filming a wedding occasion somewhere in Kiambu requires to have a licence from Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) three times over. This is a piloting course because a person has to go to the headquarters of KCAA or a training school to learn how to pilot a drone. I do not know whether they are issuing certificates for piloting and whether they are of any commercial value. Mr. Speaker, Sir, by and large, I agree with Sen. Kajwang’ that we must open up our environment and ensure that we do not restrict growth especially in technology. This is what the world is doing. This is how countries have made leaps and bounds of progress in various areas. Therefore, I find that not useful. We shall support to ensure that we get the right answer and seek to have those regulations revised, so that they are within parameters that are useful to the everyday running of society. I support and commit that we will have a look at that in the Committee and take the right measures."
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