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    "id": 784352,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mbui",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "I will only talk about the offences that I have seen in this Bill. I have listened to a colleague who has said that he feels that the penalties are extremely high. Maybe we can increase them if possible because these are issues which are affecting many people and in very nasty ways. Clause 4 is an offence on unauthorised access. Looking at it, in the last elections, the Chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), Wafula Chebukati, stated that his password was used. Therefore, there were people who had unauthorised access to the servers. Because of that, there was a disputed election that led to a lot of lives being lost. Personally, I was a victim of the violence which resulted from the last disputed elections. Therefore, I think it is important that we address these issues. Someone has mentioned the access that NASA had to the servers, but I think it was probably in conforming to what the Supreme Court President said that the servers should be accessed. Clause 12 talks about false publication and my understanding is that these are things that are put out there, which are not true about different people. I have been a victim of this. Many Members even those who are new will end up being victims of this if we do not pass this Bill. For example, I saw in one of the groups an individual who kept criticising the projects I was doing to the point where he implied that I had stolen money. Some of the projects which were being named were not even funded under the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). Some were national Government projects and others were funded by the Local Authorities Transfer Fund (LATF) in the previous dispensation. But this person continuously kept repeating and saying that money was lost. I attempted to answer the questions, but it reached a point where I had to call the person. It was interesting and I discovered it was blackmail when the person told me that they are trying to find out the things I have been doing so that they can write a magazine for the constituency. So, I realised that some of this false information was being used so that they can extort money from Members. A lot of times, on our WhatsApp groups, the criticism that is levelled against leaders is not because there is something wrong they have done, but simply because people want to be paid to stop saying what they are saying. Sometimes, they make a lot of noise so that you can realise they are available and can be used. They are actually gangs for hire. If we do not enforce this and make it very prohibitive, they will continue doing that to us. I will tell Members that there are people who lose their political offices and seats within five years just because some bloggers decided to make them victims and continuously talk about them. I also noted in my first term that the Kenya National Audit Office (KENAO) do preliminary reports. They come to your constituency, study what goes on there and write a preliminary report which is basically meant for the fund account managers to answer. Somehow this information leaks to the bloggers. Even when there is a query like why a dormitory is being built for two years, and that can be answered, as long as it is in a KENAO report, somebody will put it out there and imply that money is in your pocket, yet, clearly, the report says that the project was put up, but it has not been finished because probably you did not provide enough funds and will provide them in another year. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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