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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am laughing because there are Members who are asking me to donate a minute to them. I do not know whether they will now respond to the issues on my behalf. It is, indeed, true that this matter was of grave concern to Kenyans and even Members of Parliament. I must thank Hon. Martha Wangari and Hon. Mukunji for raising this issue before the House. This afternoon, I had a meeting with the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration and the Data Commissioner, Madam Immaculate Kassait. I also had a lengthy telephone conversation with the Cabinet Secretary for Information, Communication and Digital Economy, Hon. Eliud Owalo. I just want to assure the House and the country that this matter is now under active investigation by a multiagency team that encompasses the ministries of Interior and National Administration; Information, Communication and Digital Economy, investigative agencies and even the financial reporting agencies. As Hon. Martha Wangari was asking, they have been tasked to find out the number of people who have been registered in the country. I saw in the news yesterday being reported that this company has collected data from about two million people’s eyes globally. We want to specifically know the number of Kenyans. On the safety of that data, as I indicated in this Statement, the multiagency team has assured us that the company that was collecting this data was not Worldcoin. It is a local marketing company by the name Sense Marketing. I have heard the issues that Hon. Junet Mohamed and Hon. Bensouda have raised. Were it not for the quick action of the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration; Information, Communication and Digital Economy and the Data Commissioner, we would not be where we are. Probably, more data would have been collected. Yesterday, I indicated that the Data Commissioner’s cautionary statement was a bit too late, but I have since learnt that she gave her cautionary statement a week before this matter came to the public limelight. Therefore, it is not lost on Kenyans that, indeed, Government was on track of what these people were doing. Since last year, the office of Data Commissioner was on track. They wanted to start collecting this data last year but they were not registered. They were waiting for the launch of that bitcoin in the cryptocurrency. It was after it was launched late last month that they started collecting this data. The office of Data Commissioner has been on that case. We must commend them. It is unfortunate that someone like Hon. Bensouda has the kind of views on the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration, who swung into The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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