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    "id": 1029867,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion and congratulate the Member for coming up with it. The basic purpose of this Motion is to provide data at the civil registration centers that will make it possible to get birth certificates at these centres. That is a basic thing and I support it. It must be possible and easy to get this document. It is a document that signifies your arrival in this world, presence and then enters you into the national statistics. Without it, you might be in the statistics, but you do not exist because it indicates your region of origin and will have implication for the rest of your life. All the civil rights we enjoy are based on this document. It is required for your enrolment into educational institutes starting from the early childhood education centres, primary school and secondary school all the way to the university. It is also important for identification of your age for all purposes namely; legal, recognition, medical, before we even go to other technical ways of getting the person’s age. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the biggest function of this document is its link with the identification card. Without a birth certificate, you cannot get an ID and without an ID, you are not entitled to anything. You actually do not exist. Without an ID, you cannot get any employment, a passport, open a bank account, get into the taxation system through the Kenya Revenue Authority Personal Identification Number, or get a driving licence. You are not entitled to social protection services and the funds that people get. You cannot even sit for any exam at the secondary school or university without an ID. There is need for ease of getting this document at the nearest centre at your time of need. It becomes very difficult and different to get this certificate if you were born at home and not in a medical facility. 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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