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    "speaker_name": "Wajir CWR, PDR",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Fatuma Gedi",
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        "legal_name": "Fatuma Gedi Ali",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity. From the outset, I support this Motion. This is a very important Motion for us. Every child has the right to acquire a birth certificate and to go to school. You know very well that without the birth certificate, children cannot access services in schools or even in hospitals. In our Constitution, it is very clear that everybody has the right to acquire citizenship of this country. The challenge is, in many parts of this country, the dynamics are different. For example, where I come from, we have a border with Somalia and many of our children and even citizens fail to acquire birth certificates from childhood and even IDs. So, they are forced to go to countries like Somalia where they can acquire citizenship. It is a big shame on us. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to say with confidence that this is a very touching Motion. From the pastoralists’ area - we saw the day before yesterday, I think on Tuesday, if I am not wrong - they were giving us ultimatums and irreducible minimums for the BBI and yet they are not here to support this Motion. It is really shameful. Very shameful because the issues that we were asking for 50 years after Independence, issues of IDs, death certificates, birth certificates… They were at a Press conference giving us irreducible minimums on those issues that they can legislate here; some are issues of policy that do not require ultimatums in the BBI. In the constituency that I come from, we get services, you can imagine 120 kilometres away and one has to go and get a birth certificate. You can also imagine our roads are very bad. So, I want to congratulate and thank the Member for this wonderful Motion, but as she is talking about data, where I come from, we are not yet there. We do not have offices. We do not have enough staff and the reason is the network. We are not connected by the 4G network yet. It is a wonderful Motion and as I said, for us to tighten this, we will bring amendments to this Motion. With that, I thank the Member for this. Please, I want to say to the pastoralists Members of Parliament that let us not incite the pastoralist communities against other communities because there is nothing called pastoralists. We are all Kenyans. This is the time we all need to unite, so that we can have one Kenya that we all want. Once we have one Kenya, all these issues will be sorted out. I thank you."
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