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    "id": 866795,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/866795/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "id": 13441,
        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": "Access to internet is important to everyone and it will also save us a lot of revenue. We have people who are travelling long distances to just take a copy of their IDs which can be transmitted through such facilities. I also want to note that although the Motion talks about introduction of these services in constituencies, we have constituencies that are far too large and they have more than one sub-county. It is high time that even as we discuss some of these services, we should consider doing them at the sub-county level and not just at the constituency level. I also want to note that through the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK), we have the universal fund. For a long time, this fund has been growing and I hope that one day we can have a report on what some of the services provided by this fund are. Among them is the service to support access to ICT and to support capacity building and innovation of ICT services in this country. That fund is well endowed and we need to go into it and know what it has been doing. We also know that our telecommunication service providers have a lot of money that is not utilised. We have visitors who come to this country, buy airtime of about Kshs 5000 and above, stay for two days, go back and the rest of the money is unutilized. I think there is a provision for that money to be transferred to the universal fund. This is something that we need to move into. Funding these ICT facilities is not something that we will need to go back to the Budget for. We just need to look at this fund, look at the amount of money being retained by the communication 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."
}