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    "id": 47278,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/47278/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Khaniri",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister Information and Communications",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 171,
        "legal_name": "George Munyasa Khaniri",
        "slug": "george-khaniri"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The need to capture details of persons subscribing to telecommunication services and in particular cellular mobile services arose from numerous public security concerns such as kidnapping, terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering, among others. The requirement for transaction traceability, which is normally preceded by the capturing of subscriber information is, indeed, now widespread throughout the world. Many countries around the world have taken specific measures including establishing specific legislation to address this issue. It is for this reason that in 2005 the Government initiated the process of establishing a system of capturing the subscriber details thus being able to link a subscriber to a particular sim card mainly for security reasons. It was, however, noted that there is need to put in place a legal framework to, among others, pre-empt any litigation, to address the issue of disclosing subscriber call records and oblige subscribers to register themselves. Following the Presidential directive of 20th July, 2009, on the same, a lot of ground has been covered including the subsequent issuance of subscriber registration guidelines on 30th September, 2009. These guidelines are based on voluntary registration which is currently being used, pending enactment of appropriate legislation that provides for mandatory registration. The sim registration exercise is, therefore, on-going within the above context. As at the end of February, 2011, the registration statistics were as follows: Airtel which has 3.7 million subscribers has registered 2.4 million subscribers which represents about 63.4 per cent of their subscribers. Orange which has 2.6 million subscribers has registered 1 million subscribers which is about 38 per cent of their customers."
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