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    "id": 808757,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/808757/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sammy Seroney",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2499,
        "legal_name": "Sammy Kipkorir Seroney",
        "slug": "sammy-kipkorir-seroney"
    },
    "content": "a drone had crushed into a commercial airplane in Canada. The first time such an incident had occurred in the country, the Government said. As reported in the American Press, on 16th February 2018, a helicopter crash-landed in South Carolina, and many have been triggered by a civilian drone which would make it the first drone-related crash of an aircraft in the US. In the United States of America, two men in Maryland were sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in 2016 for smuggling contraband into a maximum security prison last year. Sixteen people in Georgia were indicted on drug and firearm trafficking charges, including allegations that they used drones to drop cell phones into prisons that were then used to coordinate unlawful activity. Furthermore, it is not absurd to imagine that our privacy shall be no more and that drones will enter our personal spaces literally in private compounds. A police officer in Georgia in 2015 lost his job after being charged with eavesdropping after flying a drone over his neighbour’s property. A man was arrested in Oslo, New York, in 2014 for flying a drone too close to a hospital window. There are currently no petrol-driven drones. There are only a few issues that I may ask as a country. There are so many drones which are at loose. There are so many drones in this country which cannot be accounted for. There are so many drones which are being flown in functions and yet these drones are not registered and cannot be accounted for. How safe is our country and our space? How are we safe as Kenyans when these drones are being flown all over and yet they can carry dangerous weapons? It can even carry dangerous chemicals. I would like to point out that the countries that are producing these drones have limited their usage; for example, China, USA and Israel. Last month, when I was in the US, I managed to converse with delegates attending different conferences from various states in the US. We had a discussion on drones. I discovered that in the US, drones are controlled and they are very few. It is only military installations that can use drones. The Kenya Wildlife Service and security personnel generally can use drones, so that they are able to be controlled. Therefore, I urge the Executive not to allow drones. Kenya is not a dumping ground for anything that can be manufactured anywhere without considering our security."
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