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    "id": 1059886,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ijara, PDR",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Sophia Noor",
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        "legal_name": "Sophia Abdi Noor",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this very important matter that concerns our youths. This is a very passionate issue to the people of northern Kenya, particularly the youth. Hon. Speaker, as Hon. Duale has narrated in the Petition, the Identification Card (ID) issue has been a problem throughout. The matter of ID, particularly for those who have been in the refugee camps has been a big issue and the Government and the United Nations (UN) have dealt with it. Some of us have been going round in offices because there are many youths who have been captured in the UN’s database as refugees. Some of these youths were born about five years after the establishment of the refugee camps. Some of them are 25 years old; they have finished secondary school, yet they do not have any documentation. They are thus denied their right to services and their security. They do not have any security. Freedom of movement is a nightmare for the youth in the region. This has become a major problem in terms of these youths getting services like educational services. You know that we have a major security threat in the country and when these youths do not have any identification, they are vulnerable to harassment from security officers. That has been happening to the youth in Garissa and Wajir counties. With regard to my constituency Ijara, we have been heavily affected in terms of youths who have joined refugee camps. Their parents and because of lack of basic needs, which Kenya..."
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