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    "id": 876920,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/876920/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this chance again to add my voice. I am in the Committee on Information Communication and Technology where we have been dealing with The Data Protection Bill. I wish to thank the Committee of the Whole for what they did this morning. It is the high time that the Senate should stamp its authority and show to the whole world that we are here to protect our people. My senior, Sen. Wetangula, has already spoken about how data protection is handled in other countries. We are asking Dr. Fred Matiang’i what legal law he used. We are complaining about the amendments that were sneaked in to ensure this process of registration. Was public participation done? Even in research circles, when you want to take any information about someone, you need their consent. We are talking about taking the DNA of the people of this country and we know that there are issues of insecurity. It is, therefore, not right to take such data from people without following the legal procedure. There should be proper and legal amendments and public participation. Whenever we go back to the counties, we are asked what this registration is all about. We are asked whether new identity cards will be issued and they wonder how it will be done. That is a pointer that all the people are ignorant about this process. If we, in this House, are not sure how this process was arrived at, what about our people in the counties? We are sending a very strong message to the Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Fred Matiang’i, that he should appear in this House and explain to us, specifically, the reason data will be collected from people without their consent. Thank you, madam Temporary Speaker. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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