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    "id": 1029873,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado Central, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Memusi ole Kanchory",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Elijah Memusi Kanchory",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for that guidance. Looking around, all Members have won their masks well. We stand guided. I thank you for this opportunity. Just like my colleagues have done, let me also congratulate the Hon. Member for this Motion. This is real representation. We are here to represent the people who gave us an opportunity to come to this House. We are here to speak on behalf of our people and address the challenges they deal with. A birth certificate is one of the challenges that face our people. It is a highly sought document to an extent that a lot of people are forced to give bribes for it, which is unfair. This is an important Motion. Just like other Members have said, the Mover should follow it through as an amendment to the existing law as a Bill. Birth certificates help the Government on planning. That is one importance of the certificate. It tells the Government the number of children who have been born at a particular time. Planning is important for every service that the Government provides. For health care services to be provided to citizens, it is important that the Government knows the number of children that have been born. For Government to put in place proper infrastructure for education, it is important that it knows the number of children that have been born. This kind of planning is important because children grow into teenagers and into youths. It is also important because we have realised a situation in our country of a big unemployed population amongst the youths, and we are coming up with firefighting solutions that are not going to help people. Therefore, this kind of planning from the outset is important. I come from a pastoral county where our people go through hell. You can imagine an illiterate parent trying to go to offices to get this certificate for his child and yet he cannot speak the language of the officers. Schools push parents for birth certificates and parents are forced to sell their livestock so that they can bribe Government officers to get this important document. The importance of this document cannot be overemphasised. For one to be identified as a national of a country, it starts with a birth certificate. 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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