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    "id": 1033077,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1033077/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ahmed Kolosh",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Kolosh Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to contribute on the Petition by Hon. Owen Baya. It is unfortunate that on this day and age, we are talking about communities that are discriminated against and Kenyans who do not get identity cards (IDs). This is not limited to communities like that. There are communities like the one I come from which have been subjected to too much vetting and too many processes in the process of acquiring IDs. If you look at our presentation - and it is good that the House hears this on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) and what we later on called the “irreducible minimums” which we learnt from the other side - is the issue of harmonization of the processes where a Kenyan citizen is issued with citizenship or an ID. I was a member of that Committee in the last three years. I am requesting the Chair to look at the processes a Kenyan goes through to get an ID and harmonize them throughout Kenya. Students who completed high school when I was elected in my constituency are yet to get those documents because of a vetting process that never ends. Those are true Kenyans. They are people who have nowhere else to call home. So, as I support this Petition, I request the Committee to expand the investigations and look into the issues involved in the process of getting an ID card. I thank you."
}