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    "id": 191002,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/191002/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mwatela",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 103,
        "legal_name": "Andrew Calist Mwatela",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. I want to strongly support this Motion. Indeed, we need to regulate mobile phones. We need to know who owns what number because the mobile phones in this country have been used as means of committing crime. I beg Mr. C. Kilonzo to take note of this because in this country, it is very difficult for a subscriber to migrate from one service provider to another. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in Singapore, for example, the ownership of mobile phone numbers is not with the service providers, but with the organisation that is in charge of communication in the country. In our case, mobile phone numbers would be owned by the Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK). Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in order to encourage real competition among mobile providers, so that we provide a situation where our people can pay the very minimal for this service. We need to shift from the current position, where mobile phone numbers are owned by the service providers to a situation where mobile phone numbers are owned by the CCK. If we do that, one can migrate from service provider to another without having to necessary have to lose any July 2, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1541 personal data. Currently, if one migrates to another service provider, he has to inform all his contacts of his new telephone number. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like Mr. C. Kilonzo to factor in this suggestion, as one of the additional provisions, when he prepares the Bill he intends to bring to the House. Otherwise, that is my only contribution. I beg to support."
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