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"speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
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"content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this initiative by Mr. Wamalwa. It is an amendment that meets our support as the Ministry of Transport. Indeed, it goes in line with the same development in terms of modernizing our systems and ways of doing things but it has only come slightly faster than us in terms of fast-tracking it but it is something that we have been thinking about to give Kenyans an opportunity to have their names on the number plates. This happens in other parts of the world. This is as Kenyans enjoy the new freedoms in the new Constitution where people would like to be really happy and show what they want. So, the culture of people hiding their assets will disappear as we encourage them to show off that this or that car is owned by Eugene 1 or Cyrus 1. They will also be happy to make a contribution by paying slightly more for that. Therefore, this is something that I support and I believe we will all support it. The only thing we will need to work on as a Ministry is the question of security. There is the chance of that disclosure being misused by some people if they know that this or that car is owned by Mr. Cyrus 1 or Millie 1--- For security purposes, we will find a way where if people want to track that vehicle, they cannot do it. We shall find a way to help people so that they do not become a target by advertising themselves. For example, if Rudisha or Mariga come s into the country and has his car with his name, we do not expose him to unnecessary dangers by registering his car that way. The hon. Ruteere in his seconding alluded to the fact that our prison officers may be responsible for the duplication of number plates that we see on vehicles. I would like to give comfort to Members that indeed, the prison authority which is the source of number plates is a secure environment. We have no reason to believe that any of the numbers that we see duplicated on vehicles could be emerging from the prison authorities or indeed from our reformed prisoners who by the time they get out of prison as the correctional facilities as now called, have been reformed adequately not to get into any crime. So I would like to, first of all, clear the air on that; I do not believe that any of those people are involved it. We are obviously actively involved in tracking the crime and the police have been very good at that and we have seen the number of vehicle thefts go down."
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