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    "content": "We are also going to deal with matters related to approval of Members of this House and of the “Lower House” who are going to serve in the Parliamentary Service Commission quickly in the couse of the week so that they can facilitate the issues I have been raising about strengthening the office of the Senate.That business should also take place in the course of the week. When the business is before us, we should debate and agree on the Members that are going to represent this House and the National Assembly in making Parliament and particularly the Senate perform its responsibilities. I do not want to spend so much time to say so much. We will have a lot of opportunities to also discuss Private Members’ Bills. The business of this House stalled last time because there were so many Bills introduced by Members which we had done in this House and send to the National Assembly; they sat on them. Now I am told some of the Bills which were generated by Committees of this House are being published by the National Assembly in this Parliament. I am glad though that the National Assembly Majority Leader is going to introduce the Cyber Crime Bill, maybe this time round as a Government Bill. But he must give due credit to the Senate because it was the Committee of the Senate that worked on the Bill. I can see Sen. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. is really emotionally attached. Sen. MutulaKilonzo Jnr. and Sen. Cheruiyot consulted me on this matter. In some of those Bills, due recognition must be given to the drafters and the people who worked on them. But be it as it may, it is a very important Bill that this House will also be seized of at some point this year; so that we can have a more organized cyber working environment in this country. There are too many cases being reported of children who are being bullied on social media and committing suicide. There are a lot of hate messages that are being shared on social media. We are misusing that platform. Just like other progressive countries in the world, our Committee on Information Technology had come up with a very beautiful Bill that I have seen is published by the Majority Leader in the National Assembly and we will be seized of it at an appropriate time. With this many remarks, I want to move and ask the Senate Minority Leader to second."
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