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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know why Sen. Wetangula is so excited about my contribution. First, let me start by congratulating Sen. Iman who has been consistent like Sen. Cheruiyot when it comes to raising issues of social media and technology and how they affect the youth and our children. This is an important Statement because this is a Chamber of debate and a place of discussing matters of national importance. Many Kenyans are watching us and read and refer to things we say here. The most important thing is to create awareness amongst ourselves, parents and children not only the positive, but also negative things on social media. Like Sen. Cheruiyot said, without beating my own drums, I am the leading legislator on social media with 1.7 million followers on Twitter and nearly 400,000 on Facebook. I did not attract any followers on Instagram and TikTok because they need someone like Sen. Sakaja who can rap. The point I want to make is that social media is very positive when it comes to enhancing knowledge and keeping interactions. I am unable to meet some of my best friends we were with in school about 20 years ago but we are able to follow each other Facebook and communicate. When I used to teach, you could look for a comparative study on what you were teaching or researching on. It becomes easy to communicate to a friend in another country and ask whether they have a journal article in the area you are researching on or whether they have a book published in the country in the recent past that can be useful for your research or study. That is one of the positives we get from social media. We are able to manage our affairs, businesses, firms and everything including livestock. Nowadays even livestock is managed through technology and social media platforms like WhatsApp. They make things easy. However, we must be alive to the fact that the negatives are also there. Just like face to face communication or relationship among ourselves has its negative part, social media has even accelerated the negatives that are there. I dare say that Kenya and other least developed countries have lesser regulation of social media than the developed countries. In many countries, you cannot post photos of children on social media. However, we keep posting here. A friend of mine in the United Kingdom (UK) once told me that the reason you can never see pictures of children being posted on social media is because criminals target children. When you post the school that your child goes to, the estate you live in and what you do, children become subject of attack and target by criminals. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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