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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1111870/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "know that there must be somebody who can replace that lost ID. Let us make it facilitative for our people. Let us not make it so difficult. You will find a lot of people who have lost their IDs who are reluctant to get a voter’s card. Some of us now who require people to vote end up having few registered voters because of lack of IDs. The ID is the right of a Kenyan. It is the identity of citizenship. Why do we make it so difficult for them to get an ID, especially people who we know it is easy to identify them? We have young people who turn 18 years but half of them cannot register as voters right now because they do not have IDs. I want to urge those who have not registered as voters, if you have an ID right now in West Pokot or the rest of Kenya, please do yourself a favour. Voting is not for the benefit of us, politicians. I think Kenyans sometimes think they are doing us a favour when we ask them to go and register as voters. They think it is for our good. Not it is not necessarily for our good. It is for their own good because they are the ones who elect leaders and bad leaders get elected. If they want to elect better people, if they want to give me their vote for example, they should go and register now. It is for their own good and not for my good only. I want to thank Sen. Dullo for realizing that the issues of ID card and voter registration are interconnected. This is my moment to tell Kenyans that it is important to get your ID card. If you must rush for replacement of that ID somebody must make it facilitative and not make it difficult to get. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support."
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