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    "id": 974802,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/974802/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emurua Dikirr, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kipyegon Ngeno",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to give my views on this Bill. I wish to state that I am in full support of it. The world all over is going electronic, but we are the only ones who have been very careful in a few areas. This is especially on matters to do with documents which we feel if they went online there would be a lot of fraud. As we are advancing on the part of ICT, the world no longer has fears because everybody knows there are ways of protecting documents stored in electronic devices. There are so many issues in our country when it comes to businesses. We have not invested in attracting investors and making our country business friendly. We are still on an agrarian system and are lagging behind on matters development. So, it is high time we realised that the foreign earner in every country is business. This Bill will help in putting Kenya in the global village through ease of doing business with foreign countries and within. The issue of registration of companies has been a very hectic exercise. People take around two to three months to register a company. This is because most of the things we do are just physical. This Bill will make processes electronic so that if somebody is registering a company it will not take a whole day but will be a matter of hours and the company is approved. On the issue of signatures and stamping, this should be done electronically. This will ease processes for the youth who want to register companies and use them in doing many activities. The physical registration of companies has brought a lot of fraud in this country. Today, somebody can use a company to defraud the Government and the following day that company’s certificate is burned. No record can be found to trace that fraud to a particular person or directors. But, with the electronic system you cannot burn evidence. Also most county governments have been stealing from coffers and when being investigated, they burn documents, the registry or accounts department. This is so that nobody can trace what happened. This new system will help store all documents electronically. So, if somebody was to burn their county offices, investigators can trace all the documents they want electronically. We also have issues with the Ministry of Lands because when doing a transaction, tracing the title deeds or other documents takes ages. That is why most cases in courts take years to be concluded. This is because they tend to hide files making it hard to trace them. I think this system will go a long way in helping us store transacted documents. Remember, the Government normally gets millions through transactions on land. The problem is those processes take long and some of them stall, thus denying the Government the revenue it gets. If we were to have all 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."
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