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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kisang",
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        "legal_name": "William Kipkemoi Kisang",
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    "content": "skipped. Members who have just walked in have been given opportunity to make comments. Secondly, hon. Speaker, I am a member of the Senate ICT Committee and we have noted the issues on data protection. Sen. Osotsi and myself were in the ICT committee of the National Assembly when the Data Protection Act was passed. The biggest problem that we have in the Constitution of Kenya 2010 is that there were very many activists most of whom were lawyers who agitated for it. They put in every law that one needs to be a lawyer to head the ICT entity. In fact, we had challenges when we were debating because this is an entity that should be headed by a person who is an expert in ICT. Since the law was as it was, we picked a lawyer. Given that the term of Data Commissioner is coming to an end in less than two years, this is something that we need to look at. We need to go and re-look at the law and amend appropriately, so that we have an expert in ICT heading that entity. We are not saying the Data Commissioner is incompetent. She is competent. She came for the vetting, impressed us and we basically approved her. She is doing a good job. One of the challenges that maybe they have is capacity, because of staffing levels. They need to build up capacity, so that we have people across the counties. As a Committee, I believe I will discuss with the Chairperson and the Members, so that in the next two weeks, we ensure that she comes to the Committee and answers most of these concerns that Members have raised."
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