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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) F.M. Mutua",
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        "legal_name": "Florence Mwikali Mutua",
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    "content": "especially on ethnic issues. As we progress to 2017, this will be a very bad way of using information. So, as we fight for access to information, we also need to have it used in the right manner so that it can bring Kenyans together in the right way. We also need to ensure that the Bill gives Kenyans the right and easy way to correct information both on local and international websites like Google. You find excited people who send wrong information about other people or countries. We can have an easy way of correcting this information once it is put in Google. People are very excited when they want to press the send button without understanding the implications of what they are sending out there. When information goes to Google, it is very hard to retract it. So, as we fight for access to information, we also need to ensure that there is an easy way of correcting information when wrong information is given out there. As we move ahead with access to information, we also need to protect personal data especially when it comes to hospitals. We need to ensure our data in the hospitals is well protected so that it is not given to the wrong people for the wrong reasons. Also in hospitals, we need to ensure that when a person is taken to the hospital, they are taken through what needs to be done. You find that when somebody goes to hospital, he/she is not even given the consent form to sign. When you go for an operation, some organ can be removed from your body and you never signed the consent form. So, it is good that when people go to hospitals, they are taken through what needs to be done. We saw a few years ago where some ladies who had HIV/AIDS, instead of them being taken through what needs to be done, their uteruses were removed so that they do not get more children. So, they need to have been given the right information at the right time so as to avoid such cases. It was very bad because that was not done with their consent. We also need to protect whistle-blowers because we all saw what happened to the Auditor-General when he released his report. The information he released was very important for this country and yet, he was attacked. So, we also need to ensure that as you release access to information, we have protection for those people. In the access to the 30 per cent tenders for the women, youth and people living with disability, it is like a secret in the counties. Nobody wants to tell who has been given those tenders and if you keep on asking, people start wondering why you keep pushing it. It is our job as county women Members of Parliament to know the women, youth and the people living with disabilities who have received those tenders. However, we do not have that information. It should be given freely for people to understand the special women who get the tenders and not others. We need to understand and have that information freely. It is also important that when a request is done for information, there has to be a time limit when it can be accessed not to be waited for indefinitely. There should be a timeline when it can be accessed. The charges for the request, if any, should be reasonable."
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