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    "id": 1029880,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1029880/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyamira CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Jerusha Momanyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jerusha Mongina Momanyi",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity so that I also contribute to this Motion. I want to thank and congratulate my friend, Hon. Wamaua, for bringing forth this Motion. The document we are talking about is very small, but very important in the lives of all Kenyans. This is because there are no services a person can be given if they do not have a birth certificate. If one wants to get an identity card, one is asked to produce a birth certificate. If one wants to enroll in the pre-primary school, the document which is needed first is the birth certificate. For one to get a passport in Kenya, one must have a birth certificate. Therefore, without a birth certificate all those documents which are very essential cannot be obtained. This Motion, as most of my colleagues have said, should translate into a Bill so that as a Parliament we are able to give it life. It might as well be a Money Bill because of resources being required for its effect. For this database to be created, we know the Government has got very good structures down there. We have people even up to Nyumba Kumi who can help get information to the chiefs and sub chiefs. Those are the areas we can get the database without problems. You know most of Kenyans are very poor. They cannot even afford transport. So they cannot make it to the Huduma centers. As a Parliament, the Committee on Implementation can only come in when we have made it a Bill that will assist our people so that this document can be made available immediately. When a child is born, this document should be made available the same day so that when we are looking for other services the documents are in place. So, Hon. Wamaua, please make amendments so that the Motion moves to be a Bill, it will help Kenyan children and other people who do not have birth certificates. Thank you and I support."
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