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    "id": 471100,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/471100/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Rege",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 135,
        "legal_name": "James Kwanya Rege",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I join my colleagues in supporting this Bill. In the 10th Parliament, I presented the Energy and Communications (Amendment) Bill. I did this so that we could amend the Energy and Communications Act to take care of vandalism in the energy and telecommunications sector. This is basically because the Kenya Power transformers were so much prone to frequent vandalism almost on a weekly basis; transformers and ground wires, that is the third wire that supports the stability of electric transmission. In telecommunication, fibre vandalism was very rampant causing delays and outages of telecommunication. We saw that these were due to serious vandalism in the sector. Therefore, we moved the Motion to amend sections 217, 221 and 227 of CAP. 503 of the Scrap Metal Act and Section 2 (2) of the Information and Communications Act, 1998. These were amended and assented to by the President and the law was changed using the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act of 2012. This amendment fell short of proper enactment by the Inspector General of Police. These were due to corruption and other serious flaws in the Act. Therefore, I do support that the Scrap Metal (Amendment) Bill, 2012 be taken seriously since the Energy and Communications (Amendment) Bill fell short of some serious issues. It is, therefore, my wish to bring these amendments to this Bill of 2014. I plan to bring these amendments in the Third Reading stage of the Bill and these amendments may even involve changing the title of the Bill. Therefore, I support this amendment pending my insertion of the said changes. Thank you, hon. Speaker. I support."
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