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    "speaker_name": "Gem, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Elisha Odhiambo",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move: THAT, the Kenya Communication (Amendment) Bill of 2022, (National Assembly Bill No.52 of 2022), be now read a Second Time. By way of introduction, allow me to bring to the attention of the House that I initially sponsored the Kenya Information and Communications (KICA) Bill in the 12th Parliament 2019, which the House had read a Second Time. However, the consideration of the same was not concluded by the end of the term of the 12th Parliament and, therefore, the same lapsed. It is instructive to note that the views on subsequent recommendation of the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation in the 12th and 13th Parliaments are almost similar, and there is only a slight deviation in one of the justifications in the rejection of the Bill. I also wish to highlight that the stakeholders who submitted and strongly opposed the Bill in the 12th Parliament are the same ones who submitted before the Committee. This is despite the fact that the issues that were raised in the Bill were not redressed in the process. I had hoped that the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation, in its Report rejecting the Bill, would have gone ahead and highlighted the steps undertaken to address the issues of call drops, which is critical in the country. The ordinary Wanjiku or Adhiambo in the village, when they make calls and the calls drop, which is not a question of a third-party interference, is important and prudent that the telecom companies can be able to compensate them. So, one of the inputs of the Bill was to 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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