<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Chemu, the issue you are raising was one of the arguments made against criminalising erroneous transactions when the Cybercrimes Act was being debated. However, it still made it to the law. Section 35: <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
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<p style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times"">A person who intentionally hides or detains any
electronic mail, message, electronic payment, credit and
debit card which was found by the person or delivered to
the person in error and which ought to be delivered to
another person, commits an offence and is liable on
conviction a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand
shillings or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times""> years or to both. <br></span></p><p style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times""><br></span></p><p style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times"">
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</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 10:22, Rosemary Koech-Kimwatu via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Listers,<div><br></div><div>I come from the school of thought where we don't need to come up with laws for every seemingly new vice perpetrated through technology. This is theft, similar to the case of the guy from Embu who build a house with money erroneously deposited in his bank account <a href="https://nairobiwire.com/2020/06/man-in-tight-spot-after-building-house-with-money-mistakenly-deposited-in-his-bank-account.html" target="_blank">https://nairobiwire.com/2020/06/man-in-tight-spot-after-building-house-with-money-mistakenly-deposited-in-his-bank-account.html</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>The Penal Code CAP 63: <br></div><div><table style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:16px;font-family:Arial,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;border-spacing:0px"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit"><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit"><td style="padding:1px 0px 0px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit" valign="top"><font size="2">268.</font></td><td style="padding:0px 0px 0px 10px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit" valign="top"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.3"><font size="2">Definition of stealing</font></div><div id="gmail-m_-2306351289744831237gmail-KE/LEG/EN/AR/P/CHAPTER
63/chap_26/sec_268/subsec_1" style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit"><table style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;border-spacing:0px"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit"><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit"><td style="padding:1px 0px 0px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit" valign="top"><font size="2">(1)</font></td><td style="padding:0px 0px 0px 10px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-style:inherit" valign="top"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit"><p style="font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:3px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit"><font size="2">A person who fraudulently and without claim of right takes anything capable of being stolen, or fraudulently converts to the use of any person, other than the general or special owner thereof, any property, is said to steal that thing or property.</font></p><p style="font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:3px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:small;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><br></span></p><p style="font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:3px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:small;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit">Kind regards, </span></p><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"> Rosemary Koech-Kimwatu</font><div><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"> Advocate </font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"> Head of Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs - Oxygene MCL</font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"> Tel: +254 718 181644</font></div><div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:3px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit"><font size="2"><br></font></p><p style="font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:3px;border:0px none;outline:currentcolor none 0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit"><font size="2"><br></font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 9:25 AM Barrack Otieno via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi Daudi,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is extreme, i think a crime should be separated from basic rights to communicate.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best Regards</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 24 Jun 2020, 8:31 am David Indeje via kictanet, <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Listers,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Something is being disccused online, initiated by Mr Boniface Mwangi:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"There should be a law that anyone who receives mobile money by error and refuses to reverse the transaction should be banned from owning a mobile line. All mobile numbers are supposed to be registered using an ID and that persons ID should be flagged to never transact again." <a href="https://twitter.com/bonifacemwangi/status/1275659504647057411?s=19" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/bonifacemwangi/status/1275659504647057411?s=19</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>
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