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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. As it has been said by many of the Members who have contributed, this is a very critical Bill not just for the economy of this country, but also the security of our nation. As the last Speaker, Hon. Timothy Wanyonyi has said, it should not just be on security issues around this city, the challenges we have with CCTV coverage that was done sometimes back from 2015, its weaknesses in analyzing what is captured and how that programme was to be implemented to make sure that it has face recognition capability. This is so that criminals who commit crime anywhere within our City can be easily identified and apprehended. I have had challenges in the recent past on matters to do with IT. We have a crime unit at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). You will be shocked that even when criminals commit crimes and CID are able to lift finger prints, to be able to analyze and match those finger prints to the crimes database at CID Headquarters is hard. If those fingerprints are not available at the criminal database within the headquarters, how they lift that information with the Registrar of Persons at the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) building will shock you! The success rate of trying to identify criminals is probably less than 1 per cent. That is a challenge to do with IT and how well we can have an IT system in the management of crime. I hope the Inspector General of Police and the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government are going to work on a crime prevention and management system such that when you report a crime in Central, Parliament or Kikuyu police stations, the record in the Occurrence Book (OB) is accessed in digital form. It should be such that if you have committed a crime in Kikuyu and you are arrested in Mandera, the police through their own system can access information about you. Back to this Bill, issues to do with cyber espionage touch on our economy and safety of data. Those in the corporate world will tell you that information is power. Issues to do with cyber espionage in corporate organizations, especially on the financial sector are quite rampant in this country. Even those companies that are listed at the Nairobi Stock Exchange are affected. People are able to get through cyber espionage, privileged information that they use to trade at the stock exchange markets and make profits at the expense of other Kenyans. These are issues that are clearly covered under this Bill. Clause 11 goes at length and I do not want to read issues to do with cyber espionage. The question on Clause 9 on unauthorised disclosure of password brings to mind the issue of the National Youth Service. You remember someone alleging that it is only his password that was used but he was not the one who authorised certain payments. You wonder how somebody accessed a password without the person who owns that password giving it to them. It is possible that there was complicity between the owner of the password and the people who were in charge of IT. They were able, from the background, to see what passwords someone was using and even hack into the system. Therefore, this Bill covers such things. You remember the challenges we had with IFMIS and the Government is now moving not just on procurement issues but even on payments. We have e-procurement and IFMIS in terms of payments, from the county level to the national 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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