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    "id": 194060,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government",
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        "legal_name": "Robinson Njeru Githae",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I think this is a very important Motion that has been brought by my friend, Mr. C. Kilonzo. I will not comment on the hate messages because that has been adequately dealt upon by hon. Members. My main concern is we, as politicians, Ministers and Assistant Ministers, Permanent Secretaries and chief executives of parastatals, there should also be a law on hiding the May 14, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1031 identity of the caller. My policy is that if you call me and your have hidden your identity, I do not pick your call because I do not see why you should hide your caller identity. I also do not hide my number and I have never done so. I think we need to pass another law to prevent people from hiding their identities. Why should you hide your number if you are calling me? What are you hiding? This habit is more common from the so-called top-guns; the Ministers, Assistant Ministers, Permanent Secretaries and chief executive officers of parastatals. If you go Singapore and Turkey, at the airport, if you want to buy a SIM card, you have to present your passport. My contention is that we do not even need a law. An administrative instruction can be issued by the Minister telling the two mobile companies that before you allow somebody to purchase a SIM card, they must produce an identity card pending formal law on this issue. We can sort out this problem. I think it is not too much to ask. Concerning the other messages about husbands and wives cheating on their spouses, there is not much we can do about that. We can only call upon people to be honest. Do not say you are in Naivasha when you are in the next house doing something immoral. Particularly, we have now seen short message service (SMS) used to cheat on examinations. There are so many ways that these SMS are being misused. We have even had a case of someone who killed his wife when she received a message on her phone saying that: \"I am missing you, I am waiting for you.\" But there is not much we can do about those kinds of messages. I am more concerned with the hate messages. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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