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    "id": 784414,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/784414/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tuitoek",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kamuren Tuitoek",
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    "content": "Thank you, very much Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This Bill has just come at the right time. The Bill is very important and should cover a very wide area. In Kenya we are undergoing massive use of computerisation. Ministry of lands is doing a lot of digitisation. Universities and all learning institutions are also undergoing massive use of computers in their systems. We also know that when it comes to the world of Common Market for Eastern and Southern African Countries (COMESA) there is also the use of computers to enable the business. COMESA deal with money transfers, Mpesa and other types of money transfers. If you look at the academic world people are doing a lot of very important research and publications in which people tend to do a lot of plagiarism. So, this Bill in my own view should be really wide. It should not be restricted to a very narrow area. We know the social media is a pain. Some of us are victims of the many things that are being written in the social media, WhatsApp, charts, telegrams, Instagram, Face book. It is a nice way of communication and has expanded opportunities for people to get information although a few people have misused it to exchange and source information. Therefore, this Bill is good in that it tries to bring discipline to the social media. A lot of bad things have been going on in these platforms. There is stalking of our members or individuals in Kenya, cyber bullying and all those kind of things. We also know about the banking fraud that is going on. This is where people steal money by manipulating systems. So, this Bill is coming at the right time because it is going to address a wide area which is really very important. It is going to sort out issues by protecting people’s private information and data. This is done by preventing unauthorised disclosures and cyber espionage especially publication of false information which is on the rise of manipulating of information. Personally, I have been a victim. There is a lot of photo cropping or changing or manipulating information just to achieve wrong end of things. Publications of various kind including pornography that has been mentioned here is a very serious thing which we need to prevent especially to protect they young learners. If you go to homesteads you will find everybody including the children with their mobile phones busy. We therefore need to find ways of protecting young people in this kind of digital world of forgery. I support this particular Bill very much because it will bring discipline into the sector. Apart from that, it will also streamline functions of various systems so that people do not misuse them in the banking system, business world and academic world. It will also ensure that everybody play their roles by using this technology for the right purposes and not to undermine or misuse the given opportunities. I, therefore, rise to support this Bill. We only need to expand it more so that when it goes to the Third Reading we will look at it clause by clause and see whether we have covered all the sectors so that we do not come back again and bring another Bill to cover other sectors. We actually need it to be a comprehensive Bill. Whoever said we do not need to rush was right. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for us, the fine should be more punitive contrary to the misgivings of our Member, Hon. Amollo, so that people can be deterred from misusing these particular tools especially the social media where people’s names are being damaged. People are creating fake information and the lasting effect may be fatal. With those few remarks, I support hoping that in the Third Reading we bring in more amendments. Thank you."
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