Sen. George Khaniri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1611 to 1620 of 1873.

• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have no problem with the Question coming back tomorrow. However, I was ready to respond to it today. view
• 3 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I am aware that there is a Question on the Order Paper, but my colleague was detailed to answer this Question. I think he had started answering it last week, but it was deferred for him to get more information. I do not see him here and I request that the Question be deferred to tomorrow. view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The need to capture details of persons subscribing to telecommunication services and in particular cellular mobile services arose from numerous public security concerns such as kidnapping, terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering, among others. The requirement for transaction traceability, which is normally preceded by the capturing of subscriber information is, indeed, now widespread throughout the world. Many countries around the world have taken specific measures including establishing specific legislation to address this issue. It is for this reason that in 2005 the Government initiated the process of establishing a system of capturing ... view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, Safaricom, with 17.4 million subscribers, has registered 14 million subscribers which represents 85 per cent and lastly, Yu, which has 1.5 million subscribers, has registered 1.1 million, which represents 72 per cent of the subscribers. In total, we have registered 76.6 per cent of all the subscribers across the networks. view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: (b) As stated earlier, there has to be a legal framework to, among others, pre-empt any litigation, to address the issue of disclosing subscriber call records and oblige subscribers to register themselves. Such legal framework would be used to take action on any defaulter, be they subscribers or service providers. My Ministry is at present, in consultations with the Attorney-General, with a view to bringing to Parliament draft legislation for debate and enactment. view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is easier said than done. We can only do that under a legal framework. You cannot go blocking peoples’ numbers without a legal framework because they will take you to court. So, what section of the law are you going to cite in your defence? Therefore, it is important that we pass this particular legislation. I want to assure the House that we have already drafted the legislation and forwarded it to the Attorney-General. I think it is going to be included in the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendment) Act that will be coming to the House ... view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said in my answer, that was done, following the Presidential Directive that all sim cards must be registered. That Directive was issued on 20th July, 2009. view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, for us to come up with that Bill, you will agree with me that we had to do a lot of consultations, particularly, with the service providers who were a bit hesitant about the Bill. Therefore, consultations have been taking place all the time. We have had several retreats and meetings with the service providers and, eventually, we agreed on the Bill that we drafted. I have just stated that it is at the Attorney-General’s Office. It will be tabled in this House when the Attorney-General brings the Miscellaneous (Amendment) Bill. view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that issue is included in the guidelines that we gave to the service providers after the directive. Anybody buying new sim cards must be registered. So, the 25 per cent that is not registered are sim cards that were sold before that particular directive. view