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    "id": 940219,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/940219/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "This Bill provides currently a penalty of 2 per cent of the annual turnover of the preceding financial year in relation to an infringement on any provision of the Act that may be imposed by the Office of the Data Commissioner. I want Members to listen to me: 2 per cent of Safaricom’s annual turnover is Kshs1 billion and they can pay that. What about the young Kenyan companies that are in these industries and are coming up? Their turnover is not Kshs1 billion. Therefore, this particular provision was protecting the multinationals. That is why we are saying the 2 per cent is punitive to Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) whose turnover is low. It can cripple their functionality and survival and to this end we propose an amendment to reduce it to 1 per cent. We delete the word “higher” and substitute with the word “lower”."
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