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    "id": 796628,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/796628/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Chairman, there is no Bill that belongs to the ICT Ministry. The Bills are brought into this House from the Cabinet through the Attorney-General and the Leader of the Majority Party who appends his signature. So, there is no law we make for a specific ministry. We make laws for the people of Kenya. The Government is one and the Government and the Cabinet act as one. Let me answer my friend, Hon. Osotsi. There is an element of the title of the Bill that talks about cybercrime. The ICT does not deal with crimes. That is why we have the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). The moment the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) and other agencies identify a crime, it is for the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the DPP to do the prosecution through the said office. That is why we have the Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya being a member of that committee. He represents the fraud that takes place in the financial sector. You cannot have this Bill without the Governor of the Central Bank. That is why we have the Director-General of the National Intelligence Service. This is a multi-sectoral committee. You also find it in many other Bills that this House has passed. We have it in many other pieces of legislations that we have passed. So, there is nothing peculiar this time. That is why for the ICT Ministry we have the Principal Secretary, ICT and the CAK’s Director-General sitting in this board to take care the interests of the Ministry. We are creating a mountain out of a molehill. We have done it and let us move on."
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