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    "id": 1111866,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1111866/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 202,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
        "slug": "samuel-poghisio"
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to thank Sen. Dullo for her timely Statement. Any issue touching on identification is a national issue. It should actually be the concern of the State that when a child is born, the tracking of that child from the age of zero to the age of 18 years, should be the Government’s business to identify where they were born so that at 18 years we do not have to labour so much to get an ID. This happens in developed countries and we are a developing country. With the current situation in Kenya where we pride ourselves as being technologically apt and having data networks and telecommunication networks, we should be able, therefore, to process children when they are born so that there is a database. This is how we begin and then at 18 years, we will have no issue at all when a child goes to Form One and they need a birth certificate. It should be available. Right now parents have to go and pay money for birth certificates and start afresh as though the children were born on that day because there is no basic data about that child. It is not very difficult to have all babies registered. The problem is that many babies are not born in hospitals partly because in many areas where we come from there are no facilities. Even then, the traditional birth attendants in the villages are sufficient. They know what they are doing but the only problem is that they do not register those babies. We need to train them so that they can be registered. Coming back to the ID, this is a very important mark. It is a card that identifies you as a Kenyan. You cannot acquire a passport without an ID. It is something that you need as a precursor to a passport. Members have exhausted some of the things that I would have said about the difficulties that we go through to get IDs. I was very fortunate"
}