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    "id": 487020,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 199,
        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, the genesis of it starts about 12 years ago when we started as a country to modernize our communication system with respect to fighting crimes. If you read the report of the Committee, it started in 2002 when Tetra Radio Limited was awarded a licence to provide trunk radio system or network for security and emergency cases. From that time, that system faced legal tussles from 2002 that went to court up to 2007. Another one was started in 2007 and again people moved to court up to 2012. Every time we try to modernize our security communication system, there has been court cases that have really dragged this project. Since it has been done in an open and competitive open tender, which I think this time the Ministry and those responsible resulted to single sourcing, I do not want to dwell on that so much, but I want to say that this system is an important project for this country. If you read the report, the project consists of digitizing the tracking of the radio network. There would be a central command operation center, there would be a video surveillance system installed in our major towns. That would help this country and security agencies in fighting crimes. I want to applaud the Governor of Machakos County. He has started that video surveillance system where, while in Machakos County, you can be tracked in the command centers with those cameras installed all over. If a county government can do that, what of a National Government? I think this is a project which is coming a little bit late, but as they say, better late than never. I want to plead with this House that the fight against criminals really needs technological advanced operators in terms of hardware and software. This House should play a special role in ensuring that these projects come into light because we are talking of a digital era and this is the time everything we do including our security which is very paramount needs to be digitized. There is a concern on data security and many hon. Members and members of the public have been asking about our security information. If you look at the project, there is what we call - those who are digital know this - data encryption. Data encryption especially when you employ end to end data encryption will ensure that information carried in that system is safe and can only be actualized and be decrypted at the end to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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