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    "id": 784396,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maritim",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13289,
        "legal_name": "Sylvanus Maritim",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to support this Bill. Before I contribute, I want to say I am the latest victim of computer and cybercrime. Lately when I am going home, I have to go through a supermarket to buy ice-cream and chocolate for my wife just to assure her that indeed she is still the love of my life. The kind of confusion, the kind of mental torture that she has had to go through lately because of false publication is way too much. There is nothing that is disturbing like waking up in the morning to a 1000 notifications on Face book and people posting lies about others on social media. It is totally unacceptable. The Computer and Cybercrimes Bill is going to solve half of our problems. In as much as we support freedom of expression and freedom of speech, it has to come along with responsibility. I want to challenge my youth, and those who are using social media that before you click send, before you upload anything, ask yourself four questions: Is it true, is it necessary, is it going to assist anyone, in the event that you are cornered, are you in a position to substantiate? If any of those is negative, you have to drop it like a hot potato. There is cyber stalking and cyber bullying. Most of the Members here are victims of the same where guys are extorting money from us. They come up with funny stories. They send us messages asking for money so that they do not post the same. By passing this Bill, we are going to net them. We want to support our youth, we know they are creative and hardworking but they have to use internet appropriately. I also need to warn group administrations for various social media platforms. Clause 17 is coming for you. They are seriously aiding and abetting commissioning of these crimes. If you are an administrator of whatever social platform, ensure you have ground rules. Ensure you put teeth in your rules because at the end of the day, we are coming for you. We know guys who are posting using fake accounts, pseudo accounts attacking leaders. It is wrong and it has to come to an end. Members have talked of the penalty. They have talked of three to 25 years. A penalty of Kshs25 million to me, is less. The kind of damage that these youth are causing is huge. Some of us have struggled so much to build our reputation just for someone to go sit somewhere close to a Wi-Fi, compose a false message and circulate it so that they can damage our reputation. It is completely unacceptable. I stand to support the penalties prescribed. A perfect enabler of this Bill is the police. Currently, with technology, crime rate is changing. We are going to work closely with security team to ensure that they are equipped with the necessary skills and with the necessary tools for investigation and even getting to arrest those personalities. In that connection, the other day, I saw a comment from the NPSC talking of reducing salaries for some officers who have advanced their education. That is wrong. We need learned fellows. We need guys to go out and study on several methodologies on how to arrest the computer and cybercrime offences. We need this Bill and it is my biggest plea to the Members 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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