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    "id": 1583350,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1583350/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie-Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Yes. I was forced to get a temporary new number because I could not cope. I hired a Gen Z to manage my phone and paid a monthly salary. After a month, he returned my number and told me, “you, your money and phone, I cannot deal.” Look at the case of Albert Ojwang’s father. He was talking about money disappearing. We are almost talking in the virtual space. We are not talking about hard currency. If you wanted to steal my money in the past, you needed to get a gun, get where the money was, and shoot. Since we are dealing in a different era, it becomes very easy for somebody just to know how to tweak things and steal from you. We have an amazing number of highly educated young people in Kenya. Many of them would benefit if we regularised use of virtual assets and they could work within the sector. As we move forward technologically, the challenge is that we risk leaving certain areas behind particularly rural areas like my constituency. People there have no clue what you are talking about when they hear people talking about virtual assets. We still use the hard currency. I would like to encourage the Committee to note that some of the things we are speaking to is ensuring technological equity so that we have more people engaging on these platforms and we carry everybody forward. I do not know whether the Committee has done it. I see the Virtual Asset Service Providers Bill is before us. I do not know whether the Committee considered calling it the Virtual Asset Service Providers and Users Bill. We should not only talk to providers but to users as well. You are speaking to users while talking about protecting people’s data and their virtual assets. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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