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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipchumba Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Interior and National Administration",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " I will deal with that, Hon. Speaker. I have noted all the Questions raised by the Members. Let me focus now on the ETA. As indicated in my answer, the local company is Konvergence Network Solutions. It is a local company that partnered with Travizory Border Security to provide ETA on the Public Private Partnership (PPP) on pilot terms. When it was time to determine whether we should sign a long-term contract with the consortium of Travizory and Konvergence, we made a decision in the Ministry that it was better that RTA revert to the Ministry itself and be run under ETA. This was negotiated with the consortium. They have been paid their dues for the one year they were piloting. We appreciate them for the data they collected. I know the Member was asking where that data was hosted. The data was hosted by Travizory, which was initially out of the country. However, now that it was a pilot, we ensured all the data was returned to our Ministry because of our data protection laws. It is now being hosted at Nyayo House. It is the data that helps us implement the ETA. For the benefit of the Republic, three weeks ago, there were many complaints from the public that ETA was slow and down. That was so because we had taken over the system and are now perfecting it. We apologise to the public for the challenges we faced when the Ministry took over the system. However, the process is now smoother. We saw it fit for the system to be hosted by the Government. If we desire to upgrade the ETA later to an integrated border management system, we will invite – in a competitive process – a service provider as we progress. The service provision is now done within the Ministry. We have a certified data protection agency. The e-Citizen is certified for data protection, and we are also certified data processors. Therefore, the data is safe in our hands under the data protection law. On the Question concerning ETA, that was the situation in the past. It was realised that in countries where people were not paying for visas, one could just travel to the airport, be it in Ethiopia or several other East African countries. Some countries have partnerships. You can travel to a country without paying anything because it is visa-free. However, people felt that those who travelled for free were being forced to pay the convenience fee of ETA. As a result of that, a decision was made by the Cabinet that we remove the ETA fee completely from 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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