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    "id": 1126283,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when the chairperson walked in, we were dealing with the Statement from Laikipia where Communication Authority of Kenya (CAK) seems not to be paying sufficient attention to protection of frequencies that are given out to individuals or groups that pay for community radio stations and other electronic communications. That again is an area that the Committee should ensure there are no overlapping of frequencies; there is no jamming of one frequency by another and that there is no abuse by those who are bigger against the smaller players in the industry. I say this because we know that competition always brings quality and fairness when the regulator makes sure that whether it is Airtel, Safaricom, Orange or any other player, they have to compete fairly so that wananchi get value for money in terms of service delivery. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I urge that as we go to the General Elections of 2022, the Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology makes sure that the whole country gets a 3G coverage. This is because transmission of results is going to be done electronically and we should not have a situation where somebody in Loiyangalani cannot transmit results with ease because there is no proper frequency and coverage. We want the whole country to be covered fairly so that we all enjoy the fruits of modernity. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, equally important is the fact that when we go to elections, we must run away and move completely from the suspicions we have had in the past as to whether the transmission of results are doctored and interfered with to create incorrect results and so on. Last and more importantly, the Committee must also work with the cybercrime section of the National Police Service in stamping out the churning out of fake news which is almost overriding our society in terms of communication. People just sit in their sitting rooms, coin fake news and spread it as fast as they possibly can, causing fear, uncertainty and despondency among the population. We should make it a crime for anybody to generate fake news and disseminate it to the population because this can easily ignite a fireball in the country. You can imagine somebody churning out fake news that a prominent Kenyan has been gunned down or has been maimed in a mysterious attack. It can have the result and effect of people taking the law into their own hands and acting in revenge on the basis of news that is incorrect. Equally important is the control of airwaves by criminals in Kamiti Prison. Every other day – I am sure this applies to everybody here - you get a message from a criminal in Kamiti Prison, congratulating you for winning a raffle you have never participated in and sending you information on the payment to make for you to receive the said money. This kind of criminal behavior has to be dealt with because many people fall prey to these kinds of things. Equally important is the creation of parody accounts on Facebook all the time and many of us have been victims. Somebody just sets up a parody account on Facebook and says: Senator for Kericho is finalizing the process of lending money to so and so, and you can borrow by registering with Kshs3000. Kenyans will pay that money not knowing that they are paying into a fake account of the Senator for Kericho County and hping the they will be given money to buy a motorbike to operate bodaboda ."
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