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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. I also rise to support this Motion on the establishment of database centres. First and foremost, the issue of registration of births is a big elephant in the room. It has been a problem for a very long time. This was brought to the fore several years ago when the Ministry of Education decided that every school-going child must be registered under NEMIS. They started by saying that candidates should be registered and later on - about three or four years ago - they said that all school-going children should be registered. Almost immediately, queues sprung up in every registration centre in the country. It was at that point that we realised that it was a mess. A lot of our children were going to school yet they did not have birth certificates. As a result, very serious cases of corruption came up. I remember at one time that even the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government tried to handle those cases. Because of the large influx, there were those that were even going very early in the morning and selling space in the queues because if you went there, you would not be served within a day. 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."
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