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    "id": 1159367,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1159367/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to congratulate Hon. Osotsi who is a Nominated Member of Parliament like me and a professional in the ICT field. He has decided to streamline this profession just like any other profession so that they are regulated. We do not have professions that are not regulated. Lawyers, health practitioners and other professions are regulated. As a professional in this field, Hon. Osotsi deemed it important to regulate his profession. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have seen information communication technology become one of the most important factors in communication and in changing the views and direction of our country. We need to pass this Bill as a House so that this very important noble profession can also be regulated. The passage of this Bill will regulate cyber-crimes and protect the information of individuals in our banking system. The passage of this Bill will also ensure that even during the campaigns season, media houses are protected from bullying by politicians. Media houses will also equally professionally air information that is important to Kenyans. You will also find that we have another important platform in terms of social media which can be used to tear a country apart. We need to also regulate those on social media platforms. Even mainstream media will be regulated in terms of the content they air. Some of the content requires parental control as it is not supposed to be for public consumption. For example, there is what happened recently at State House where there was a lot of backbiting in mother tongue of the Deputy President claiming that he wanted to impeach the President. Any impeachment of a president is prosecuted through Parliament. Some of us do not understand that mother tongue and we were being backbitten in State House. If this law was there, that information would be treated as gumzo mtaani. This Bill is very important. It has come at the right time so that we can regulate."
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