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    "id": 1111878,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1111878/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "I would understand the situation as it was in the 1960s. It would make sense to worry about the possibility of infiltration by non-citizens in the country because we were a new nation. However, I wonder in the year 2021 way after the advent of technology and collection of information codified in form of data that up to now, we want our citizens verified manually by a committee that sit haphazardly without any organised structure of sitting. I do not know the situation in Kajiado where you come from because you are bordering Tanzania, but I would suppose it is the same as in Taita Taveta County. I have a testimony of one student who was in a high school when he went to get the ID and he is from my county, he was told he cannot get his ID in Kericho where he was schooling, because he came from a county bordering a border county. Apparently, because he was close to West Pokot, he had to go back home to get an ID card to be vetted. This process is barbaric and archaic. The question I ask myself is what we can propose. By law we should make it mandatory that every child before they go to grade one, they get a birth certificate which will be recognised as the official document of registration. If you are issuing the IDs, then they become over and above. Nevertheless, the original document that citizen should rely on is their birth certificate and must be presented to every citizen, whether they were born in a hospital or at home. The challenge we still have is that many people are still giving birth at home without going to any health facility. I feel bad because of the stigma and perception everybody has in Nairobi and other places; that for people who come from North Eastern cannot get an ID in Nairobi even if they live here and their descendants came from the northern part of the country. They have to go back to their county to be vetted. It is worse if you go to the North Eastern counties. Even for children who barely know where their relatives live in that part of the world. Secondly, we were lied to two years ago when we were told that we will have Huduma Namba. The single definition of Huduma Namba that was given to citizens is that it will be the single source of truth. The reality is it has ended up being the single source of lies. Up to now, we cannot tell exactly why we spent that amount of money to get Huduma Namba yet we still go back to ID card. We were told that it will integrate everything, including you ID, medical, driving licence. However, I still went to apply for my driving license a month ago. I had to do it separate from my ID, I still have my National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) card. We have become a country of lies. We were told that the document was going to consolidate everything we want."
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