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    "id": 1029811,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "There were also those who decided that because there was a shortage of printing material, they would sell it. If you went there, queued all day and gave all the documents required, you would be told to wait for two to three weeks. Those that had about Kshs1000 or Kshs2000 would go home with their certificates. That problem is still there to date. It is still rampant. Up to now, a lot of our children do not have registration certificates. When the Government came up with the plan to ensure that all children of school-going age have those certificates, they did not put in place the requirements. They did not put in place enough materials. They did not put in place enough personnel and that is why that problem still persists to date. In order for us to handle this issue, we need to ensure that the Government is well-empowered and has enough funds to increase the personnel and materials required for that purpose. This Motion by Hon. Wamaua is an excellent one because it proposes that when children are born, the information is immediately recorded in a database. This Government came into power on the promise of being a digital Government. I remember we in the National Super Alliance (NASA) were told that we are analogue. It is now many years later. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is important for this Government to walk the talk. It is important to ensure that our children are registered after birth because they are known. I know that there is a situation that the Government is afraid of. When you make it very easy to register people’s births, then it means that foreigners who have found their way into the country will probably get birth certificates. This proposal to register children very quickly after birth will deal with that problem. Some of the children whom we are registering in primary schools are in class eight. Those are already 13 or 14 years old children. That means that 13 or 14 years since they were born, they have never got birth certificates. If we do it during the first one, two or three years like it is being proposed, then that issue of infiltration by foreigners to get birth certificates from this country will also be cured."
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