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    "id": 194059,
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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Noor",
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        "legal_name": "Sophia Abdi Noor",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute to this very important Motion. This Motion is long overdue. During the campaign period of the last general election, it was very clear that hate messages were being passed over to the young generation of this country. Those messages divided this country very badly. We have children whom we want to grow in a very responsible manner. Our children went through our mobile phones and saw the hate messages that our friends communicated to us. They saw that the hate messages targeted certain communities in this country. Those kind of messages gave a very bad impression to our children. Through this, our children felt that this was a normal way of communication and, in turn, they also communicate in a similar manner. We are passing over very bad communication skills to our children. It is not right for us, as grown ups, politicians or leaders, to pass over those messages. Our own constituents also passed those messages using this modern communication system. These messages have violated human rights and ethics in our society. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, there have been high level crimes that have been organised through usage of this modern communications system in our country. Many Kenyans have lost their lives and properties through criminals using these mobile phones because we do not have a law that protects them. SIM cards retail for Kshs50 and anybody can buy them, including criminals who have interest of harming other people. We have seen the kind of crimes that have occurred in our country through this technology. How many people have we lost through highway and bank robberies through this kind of communication technology? All of these crimes have been organised using the modern communication system due to lack of a law that can put some structures in place where users of mobiles can be registered and thus mobile service providers can have information of criminals. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, there have also been other ways of people using the phones to steal money or even go to your wife, they use mobile phones. When a woman wants to date my husband because a law is not in place, you never know--- Your husband could be seated with a woman somewhere and he will tell you: \"I am attending a meeting in Naivasha\" yet he is in the next door. So, if we have a law that can regulate the mobile phone system and have a track record of the kind of messages we are sending out to our people, then it is the right time that we enacted that kind of law. It is this House that can protect the interests, rights of the country and the lives and properties of Kenyans. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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