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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise in support of this Motion. I want to start by congratulating Dr. Ottichilo for bringing this Motion. He has now acquired a niche of bringing Motions that are not only enlightening us, as Kenyans, but also pushing Kenya towards catching up with the information age. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the support of this Motion means that we are pushing the Government to set up a system that becomes a major planning tool. This is because with the Geo-Information System (GIS), we shall say goodbye to demolitions and excavation of roads to let water pipes or any other communication equipment to pass through. Everything will be planned and we move in an orderly way. Even the congestions in town, such as the immediate past speaker was talking about, will be minimized because everything will go on in an orderly manner. They say that if you do not plan, you plan to fail. So, this is allowing us, as a country, to advance in the way we plan our development. I was just thinking of the sort of questions that we ask in this House about allocation and reallocation by the Treasury. If we have this system in place, we will be able to track the allocated funds, their use and even with discretionary funds, we will be able to see how the discretion holders are spending those funds. In Ministries where there is infrastructure, there is always a discretionary fund which becomes a tool of those in authority to use as they please. If there is transparency in how they allocate, we are able to track what they are doing at the touch of a button. It makes people more careful in what they do. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am also imagining about the fraud that is escalating through mobile phones, where we have been told that people in prison are perpetuating fraud, obviously aided unabated by those looking after them or people outside the prisons. With this sort of system, we will be able to track the owners of all mobile phones. We are moving towards having every purchase of a mobile phone registered. If we have such information and it is online, we are able to access it. Therefore, it will not take the time of the police to investigate who is the phone user for a phone that has perpetuated fraud. Things will become much easier. We may not eliminate wrongdoing, but our response time will be minimized."
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