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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Timothy Wanyonyi Wetangula",
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    "content": "frustrated the USA. Imagine for a country like ours. If we are not thorough with this Bill, it can cause a lot of damage not just to us as a nation, but it can literally destroy our country. Hon. Speaker, this Bill also talks about child pornography. The provision given is okay but then, it provides another one that almost takes away this offence. When it is given by one hand and taken away by another, then we must look at it very carefully and make sure that when we are creating protection, it must be seal-proof. It should not just be something that is expected hence we just leave it open to manipulation. Hon. Speaker, Clause 12 provides that a person who intentionally publishes false, misleading or fictitious data or misinforms with intent that the data shall be considered or acted upon as authentic is another crime. We have seen this on social media platforms when people manipulate information. They pick information, twist it and make it look like it is real and authentic. Yesterday, somebody sent me a message pretending to be a known media personality. He told me that they are launching something and they are soliciting support from us and I almost fell for it. However, when I tried to investigate further, I found out that it was somebody who was just trying to get money from me. I realized that those people are becoming very clever. This Bill, when it comes to effect, I think it is going to address so many numerous challenges that we are experiencing within our own system. We have just come from an election and you saw what happened. Our own electoral system is not really protected because it was subject to manipulation. Even at the level of registration, most of us went to verify through the systems to confirm whether we were properly registered. However, some of us would not find our names because somebody had manipulated the systems. You would even find yourself registered several times. This denied several people a chance to exercise their universal suffrage because somebody had manipulated the system of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). Those are some of the things that this Bill is addressing. Hon. Musimba and Hon. Osotsi who are the experts in this area have enriched us with information that when it comes to the Third Reading and amendments are proposed, I am sure we shall come up with a better legislation that will go a long way to address a lot of social and digital crimes that are being committed on a day-to-day basis. Cyber criminals operate in areas that they cannot be easily detected. That is why we also need to empower the people who are going to enforce or implement this legislation because our own police also need to be given capacity if they are the ones who are going to enforce this law. Hon. Osotsi has suggested several agencies to be empowered to implement this Bill. I believe a multi-agency approach would be better because we can have banking fraud, others dealing with other issues and then we can still reach this level."
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