{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=153211","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=153209","results":[{"id":1550292,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550292/?format=json","text_counter":223,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Laughter)"},{"id":1550293,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550293/?format=json","text_counter":224,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"You cannot just joyride on nothing. Questions that are supplementary to the primary Question should not be based on that Question. Yes, Hon. Bashir."},{"id":1550294,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550294/?format=json","text_counter":225,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mandera North, UDM","speaker_title":"Major (Rtd) Abdullahi Sheikh","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Foremost, I appreciate and thank the Cabinet Secretary for coming. Mine is related to the issues The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."},{"id":1550295,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550295/?format=json","text_counter":226,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mandera North, UDM","speaker_title":"Major (Rtd) Abdullahi Sheikh","speaker":null,"content":"of gazetted units. I am sure the people of Warsabit were waiting for you to launch the sub- county, and I am sure they are eagerly waiting…"},{"id":1550296,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550296/?format=json","text_counter":227,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. Bashir, the Question at hand is about the Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA). I said joyriders must ride the running horse. Now you are bringing your own horse to the track. Go on if it is about the ETA."},{"id":1550297,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550297/?format=json","text_counter":228,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mandera North, UDM","speaker_title":"Hon. Major (Rtd) Abdullahi Sheikh","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Speaker, I have heard Members talking about gazetted units and locations. I want to take this opportunity to remind the Waziri that Mandera North has units that were gazetted in the 2020/2021 Financial Year. I would appreciate it if those units were operationalised. As I said, we have a date with him. The people of Ashabito are waiting for him for the launch of a sub-county. He has a date with us. Hon. Waziri is most welcome to Ashabito Sub-County."},{"id":1550298,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550298/?format=json","text_counter":229,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Thank you. Minister, try to separate the wheat from the chaff. All these are Questions relevant to your Ministry. Concentrate on Hon. Wamboka's Question. However, as an orbiter, you will deal with those issues."},{"id":1550299,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550299/?format=json","text_counter":230,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kipchumba Murkomen","speaker_title":"The Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Interior and National Administration","speaker":{"id":440,"legal_name":"Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen","slug":"kipchumba-murkomen"},"content":" Hon. Speaker, because there is a specific Question on the other administrative units, if you allow me, I will respond at this point on the ETA, and then when I will be answering the other questions …"},{"id":1550300,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550300/?format=json","text_counter":231,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"You will then respond to Hon. Kesses, Hon. Bashir, and Mama Masito. You will also deal with watu wa mapanga in Mombasa at some point."},{"id":1550301,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1550301/?format=json","text_counter":232,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kipchumba Murkomen","speaker_title":"The Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Interior and National Administration","speaker":{"id":440,"legal_name":"Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen","slug":"kipchumba-murkomen"},"content":" I will deal with that, Hon. Speaker. I have noted all the Questions raised by the Members. Let me focus now on the ETA. As indicated in my answer, the local company is Konvergence Network Solutions. It is a local company that partnered with Travizory Border Security to provide ETA on the Public Private Partnership (PPP) on pilot terms. When it was time to determine whether we should sign a long-term contract with the consortium of Travizory and Konvergence, we made a decision in the Ministry that it was better that RTA revert to the Ministry itself and be run under ETA. This was negotiated with the consortium. They have been paid their dues for the one year they were piloting. We appreciate them for the data they collected. I know the Member was asking where that data was hosted. The data was hosted by Travizory, which was initially out of the country. However, now that it was a pilot, we ensured all the data was returned to our Ministry because of our data protection laws. It is now being hosted at Nyayo House. It is the data that helps us implement the ETA. For the benefit of the Republic, three weeks ago, there were many complaints from the public that ETA was slow and down. That was so because we had taken over the system and are now perfecting it. We apologise to the public for the challenges we faced when the Ministry took over the system. However, the process is now smoother. We saw it fit for the system to be hosted by the Government. If we desire to upgrade the ETA later to an integrated border management system, we will invite – in a competitive process – a service provider as we progress. The service provision is now done within the Ministry. We have a certified data protection agency. The e-Citizen is certified for data protection, and we are also certified data processors. Therefore, the data is safe in our hands under the data protection law. On the Question concerning ETA, that was the situation in the past. It was realised that in countries where people were not paying for visas, one could just travel to the airport, be it in Ethiopia or several other East African countries. Some countries have partnerships. You can travel to a country without paying anything because it is visa-free. However, people felt that those who travelled for free were being forced to pay the convenience fee of ETA. As a result of that, a decision was made by the Cabinet that we remove the ETA fee completely from The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."}]}