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    "id": 139539,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/139539/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Welcome back Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I stand to support this Motion. I think this Ministry has the right idea, although it has a long way to go. First of all, the provision of a mobile computer laboratory is a very bad idea. Let us follow the wishes of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance of, for example, creating a centre of excellence in every constituency. Do it in one place and do it right. These mobile things--- A couple of years ago, a Member of Parliament from my end of the world bought a mobile health clinic. This project failed before it was operationalized. Do you know why he spent Kshs50 million on it? You cannot tell me that you will be calling people to a market to work with computers. Let us pick a point in a constituency and do it right. If I am driving from here to Limuru, for example, I will know I am going to that centre. We can use the name of that centre to source for further funds. You can add the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) to make it look good and it becomes a true centre of excellence. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) must pull up its socks and come to reality with the modern world. The issue of issuing frequencies to people who want to invest cannot be left to individuals. We cannot have one person having 66 frequencies and the rest are on the line as beggars. We cannot have one person using gadgets, against the law, to stop Kenyans from communicating. Recently, all communication in the southern part of Nyanza was knocked off air because of this one man who is larger than life. I was a supporter of the Communications Bill and I still support every provision in the Act. I knew that the CCK and this Ministry needed power. We said: “We are giving you those powers, please, use them”. We wanted them to use the powers so that we could make this society a place where people are not angry at the Government. We must make sure that we do not have a few powerful individuals controlling the way we live. The CCK knows this. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other day, I was in a bank and I saw a naked person on television. What is the CCK doing? Is it its work just to issue frequencies to people who are powerful? Since the CCK is threatening to posses frequencies, the biggest trade in the streets now is a frequency for Kshs3.5 million."
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