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"content": "Sen. Cheruiyot): Thank you, Sen. Mungatana. Please bring that Bill so that we can prioritize it because this is a very grave matter. Lastly, this is something we may need to think about later. There are so many Mackenzies that continue to ply their trade across this country. Sen. Mungatana, I remember one evening bumping into your Committee at Kisumu Airport. Sen. Shakila Abdalla informed me that you guys had come from a gentleman from Vihiga who calls himself John Pesa. You narrated the very grave scenes that you guys witnessed. In fact, I could tell that the Senators who had gone on that particular trip were actually disturbed deep down in their hearts because of the things that they saw; men and women who had been tied down. Some of them had not fed for days and some had lost their sense of consciousness. Therefore, this tells you that there are so many such Mackenzies’ that are out there in our various counties. As a House, even as we conclude on this particular Report and resolutions that have been so ably captured, even after doing that legislation that Sen. Mungatana has promised us that we shall do, perhaps part of the powers that we must give to that office that we set up is to initiate closure and prosecution of people who continue to do those kind of practices. While seated at Kisumu Airport, we were actually informed that, that gentleman Mr. John Pesa has been in this practice for over 30 years; people know and they have come to accept this as if it is just a normal practice. We also know many others. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we watch videos nowadays. In fact, Sen. Mungatana, part of the other problem are these frequency licenses that we give to these people who continue to ply their illegal trade even over and above their domiciled charges. Without the frequency that this Mackenzie had, perhaps he would not have reached the number of people that he reached out to. However, because he could reach to them on their TVs and their radios, that is why many people were confused. The ordinary Kenyans in the village believe that by the time you see somebody coming to the television and is able to explain things, they believe this is somebody who is properly checked. They imagine that we are such a civilized nation and there are systems that check such practices. Abuse of frequencies is something that we must equally address. Public frequencies are national assets that we should not be dishing out to criminals. The Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) must be put on notice to check on the people that have been given frequencies to run radio and TV stations, what they are using them to do. If Mackenzie could use this frequency to mislead people and kill them, believe you me, even terrorists can get the frequencies, use the same and run training. They can misinform and train our young people in a bad way and do a greater harm to this country. It is my submission before this House, this morning as I come to conclude on this particular matter, that even the issue of frequencies and how they are used is something that we must have a look at. This is so that if you are found to be using the frequency and"
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