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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Langat",
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Andrew Langat",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance to make my contribution to this very important Statement from Sen. Dullo. It was a coincidence that I was bringing my Statement on the same kind because these are the complaints wherever we go. First of all, we should know the importance of having an Identification (ID) card in Kenya. As we talk about the importance of ID cards when it comes to elections, I want to emphasize the fact that apart from that, right now there are so many students hovering in universities. They cannot access the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) loan because they do not have ID cards. There is an orphan from Bomet who is now is the second year. She has been struggling through fundraisings and suffering many other ways trying to get funds because she has not accessed her ID card in the last two years. She got a form, applied, came to the headquarters in Nairobi and tried to get it. She was told that there was an error. She went back and started the process and up to this time, she has not gotten the ID card. Last week, she deferred examinations in the university because she could not get money. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if this girl had an ID card, she would have accessed HELB loans to assist her continue with her education. Therefore, this process of lack of forms, the distance to be covered to get these particular forms and sometimes delays in getting these IDs is a great problem to the youth. Our youth are suffering because of this process. It is unimaginable. It is very interesting because I hear that if you cross the boundary in Busia and go to Uganda, you just register for an ID card and you get it in three days. Here in Kenya, we take months to obtain it. We are in the era of the 21st Century where everything is almost within the modern technology."
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