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    "id": 1368006,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not have immediate information regarding that particular part of the current Government selling Telkom Kenya to a foreign company. So, I wish to withdraw and continue with my deliberation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the point I want to emphasize is that it is very risky for a country’s ICT backbone infrastructure to be controlled by foreigners. This means that we are exposed. Besides, when we talk about the digital infrastructure of this country, we cannot finish that conversation without talking about Telkom Kenya, which basically controls a large part of that infrastructure. In the Committee on ICT, we are also investigating a matter together with Sen. Cherarkey, regarding the agreement between Telkom Kenya and an American company. The American company has decided to disconnect part of the infrastructure of Telkom Kenya because of contractual issues. This is a very serious issue. I wish the Committee on ICT where I sit, exhausts this matter. They should not just look at the infrastructure on the face of it. They should go deeper into the details about the arrangement between Telkom Kenya and this American company, together with other foreigners who wish to invest in this. As they do that, there is also the matter of data storage. We need to know how we are storing our data. Are there any foreign institutions involved in the matter of data storage because then our data would be exposed? In this era where we want to have digital IDs, we would like to ensure that the data we have is safely kept within the law and in line with the data protection laws, regulations and principles. We cannot ask our people to provide their personal data and then we hand it over to foreigners. That would be a big mistake as a country. The Senate Committee on Information, Communication and Technology needs to take this matter seriously and make an inquiry into the status of digital technology in this country. I submit."
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