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    "id": 194056,
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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Olweny",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 122,
        "legal_name": "Patrick Ayiecho Olweny",
        "slug": "patrick-olweny"
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wish to make very brief comments in support of this Motion. I congratulate Mr. C. Kilonzo for this wonderful idea. In fact, I had this idea in the last Parliament, but then we did not have enough time because we were sent home. I was actually a victim of this modern technology some time back when I was fighting for and championing the rights of the stakeholders of the sugar industry. A number of people decided that I should be warned and told that if I continued with whatever I was doing, they would kill me. I gave the information to the police. They tried to trace where the call was made from. They actually found out that it was made from a mobile telephone booth which is called \"Simu yaJamii\" . However, the person operating the booth did not know who made the call. The person just came there, paid money, talked and went away. So, this modern technology can really be abused the way the Rwandese abused their FM stations and the way the Germans abused their old type of radio stations during the Second World War. The communication technology which is so good for everybody in the world can be abused. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I know there was a case in this country where a murderer, who was part of a gang, was traced using the mobile phone. The gangsters thought that the police would not trace them through the mobile phone. The police managed to get hold of the gangsters. Currently, you cannot trace those who use the \"Simu ya Jamii\" . There are those people who buy the SIM card just to use it to deliver a message and then dispose of it. You cannot get it after that. We must put in place a way of getting hold of people who send hate messages, organise or arrange to kill and execute all manner of crime in this country using the mobile phone technology. In fact, this thing should even be extended to our FM stations which are being misused today. They were misused a bit during the General Election and the Referendum that we had. There are a few people who are known because they will always be used to do campaigns the wrong way. So, we need to come up with a method of identifying whoever buys a mobile telephone line, that is, the SIM card. As you buy it, you should identify yourself. Your name, ID or passport number needs to be registered. If you do not have all that information to be recorded, then you should not buy the line. This should be done from whichever outlet, be it from a kiosk vendor or wherever. If the kiosk vendor sells the line to you without taking note of your details, then he or she should be held responsible. If you make a bad call or send a bad message through the \"Simu yaJamii\" and you do not leave your details there, then it is the subscriber of that \"Simu ya Jamii\" who should be held responsible. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, if we do that, then Kenyans will be more responsible. A good number of Kenyans are very malicious and mischievous. They could be in their thousands or millions, but so many Kenyans who own mobile telephone lines are very bad. During the campaign, I used to get a lot of insults - not less than five - in a day. The senders do not identify themselves. They would say the rubbish they wanted to tell me and disconnect. If you asked someone to call that number, he will not go through. Probably, somebody just bought the SIM card to deliver the message he wanted to deliver to you and then disposed of it. Probably, that person would throw it in the water. Once that card gets wet, it becomes useless. It will not work again. So, I support, Mr. C. Kilonzo, for bringing this Motion. We, as a House, must pass it, so that he can bring the Bill as soon as possible. Let us pass the Bill, so that we can get hold of some of those mischievous Kenyans. With those few comments, I beg to support. May 14, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1029"
}