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    "id": 1477290,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1477290/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Mukurweini, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kaguchia John",
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    "content": "Kenya to electricity. We also have the backbone fibre cable that is headed to Turkana and Marsabit County in North-Eastern Kenya. The same is seen in Wajir, Garissa, Meru, Nyeri and even in my village in Mukurweini. In all those places, the backbone fibre cable that is much bigger is being laid. There are also the last mile cables that are being either taken through trenches or the Kenya Power posts. That means we are making this country a fibre cable cobweb, in a way. It is a web that will be in every village. It means that every homestead, public institution, village, shopping centre and market will have access to fibre optic and internet. It is important that, as a country, we harness this resource. Members must also be aware that we now have satellite internet in this country. It is penetrating the villages, even where the fibre cable will not have reached. That means we must harness this infrastructure that has been put in our country. Young people now engage in content creation. Every young person with a smartphone is a content creator. Many young people today can access the job market abroad. They engage in gainful employment through their smartphones. That is why we could not have had a better time to have this Bill than now. It is important that someone sat and thought about a technopolis that will help us to have the space, opportunity and a platform to bring about all the resources that we have. The most important resource in our country today is the young people. It is the knowledge that we have with our young generation. We have AI, which has now hit its peak at this point in time. For that reason, many people now appreciate the role of AI technology in our country. What we thought was something that was alien, and which would only be happening in foreign countries, is also happening in Kenya. I have in mind the use of robots. There are hotels even in this city, that are now using robots. Recently, I watched a documentary of a hotel in Kileleshwa which uses robots to serve customers. I appreciate this Bill. It has come at the right time. We need to support it. However, I have one issue that I would like the Chairman to look into. As we transition from the Konza Technopolis to an authority that will serve the whole country, we should keep the Authority lean. We should not introduce more bureaucracy or overburden the taxpayers. This is because we have a challenge in this country where every time we have an authority, a parastatal or a new body that is created through this Parliament, it ends up being expensive. That way, we end up having the challenge of having too many expensive Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies (SAGAs) that we have to fund from the budget. Because of that, I request the Chairman to ensure that, even as we create the proposed Authority, we make it lean and ensure that it does not add more burden to Kenyans. It is important that we look at what we already have at Konza City. We should use that infrastructure without making it bulkier and more top heavy. This is to ensure that it can serve the Republic without adding more people and costs. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we must also appreciate the issue of regulation. In this era of technology, we find that our people run too much on misinformation and disinformation. So, we must ensure that we look at the Kenya Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act afresh to ensure that it can control and have more guided penalties on people who may go against the set rules and regulations. This will help our people to run much more on proper information than misinformation and disinformation. Disinformation and misinformation can truly bring a country down. This is where people are given the wrong information and they take it to be true. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I submit."
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