Stephen Mutinda Mule

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, at the outset, I would like to say that we are going to support this Bill without any reservations because we need to have a Bill which is constitutional. First and foremost, as speakers who have spoken before me have said, there are quite a number of issues which we need to address. I want to say very clearly that during the Committee of the whole of the House, we must fine tune this Bill for the prosperity of the young people and the nation at large. view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: I have looked at quite a number of issues. Clause 12 is on false publication. We are putting it in a very general way. We need to be very specific and clear on what we intend to achieve with this Bill. I believe we need to expound Clause 12 to make sure we do not allow any false publication in this country and anybody to purport to deal with Kenyans at any given time. I know that it is in public domain what a UK company did during the elections. It is completely unacceptable in a society where democracy must ... view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Clause 14 of the Bill talks about computer forgery. We need to relook at it. As Members, we need to understand that this is being done day in day out. I want to confirm t this House that only two weeks ago I received an e-mail purported to be generated by Kenya Power giving a contract and an agreement for me to contribute on behalf of the constituency for transformers. But whoever who sent it must have been a very big idiot because he forgot that I am serving my second term in this House. When we put up a ... view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Otiende Amollo talked about penalties. For me, we should not be making laws because we need to punish people. We also need to make this law applicable to society for people to understand that they need to live responsibly. But I agree that whereas we have a responsible society, we must have very clear punishable penalties. If we leave it open for the Judiciary to make rulings they want to, even cybercrime will get itself to the Judiciary. Even the ruling from the Judiciary might not reflect the will and purpose to provide judicial solutions on cybercrime. view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Clause 27 talks about a police officer or unauthorised person have responsible ground to believe. You know the kind of police force we have in this country. Imagine a police officer believing that you are a cybercrime officer. He comes to you and wants to deal with your office and wants to get into your office. We must be clear on when a person comes to investigate a cybercrime. We have heard in this House how cybercrime infringes into the rights of individuals. So, the police officers and authorised people must have very clear authority to perform their duty such ... view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Clause 29 of the Bill talks about interpretation of content and data. I know Hon. Musimba will agree with me that it is not all of us who have the expertise to interpret data when it is its original form stored in a cloud somewhere. On this Clause, we need to bring in the technical expertise. I believe that before pass this Bill, with some of these clauses, we must have very 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. view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: detailed technical experts to sit down, evaluate the clauses and give guidance and policies on how the clauses will be implemented. Sometimes I am in pain. We make very good laws. Kenya is not short of laws. The only problem we have in Kenya is how to implement them. Somebody somewhere wants to hide under other laws to make sure that it does not happen. We need to look at Clause 29 again. I know it has several issues put together, but we need to go details especially on issues of interpreting whatever that is stored in the cloud. view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Clause 30 of the Bill is on obstruction and abuse. It is the same scenario. A police officer or unauthorised person who misuses his exercise of power under this part committed as an offence is liable to a conviction or a fine not exceeding Kshs5 million. Imagine we are now making a law to arrest somebody who has come to arrest a criminal. Am I correct? We need to relook at some of these clause because at the end of the day, at what point do we determine that the police officer or the authorised person has over-exercised misused his ... view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: We are talking of a central authority. For me it is real. But, do we need to rely on the central authority to operationalise this Bill? My answer is no. We need to think outside the box to make sure that we have a clear direction on how to make sure that all that is contained in this Bill to be successful in dealing with criminals, it is operationalised. I request the Committee to re- look whether we need to rely on the central authority online? Please, we do not need to. view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: As I conclude, this Bill is extremely timely, but we should not be in a hurry to pass it to please some people. Let us do the correct thing as a House and let us make sure we go through it with a toothcomb and make sure that when we come to the Committee of the whole House, Members and experts have interacted with it in totality and we make sure we do not leave a loophole on it because the state of the nation lies under the menace of criminals hiding behind cybercrime. view