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    "id": 1111929,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo- Ayacko",
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    "content": "not having IDs, you begin to ask yourself questions. Why is it that they are not getting IDs? That is not for them to answer but for government. Government does not seem - at least in the past – it does not desire to answer that question because it appeared to have been one that if it was correctly answered then “ Tialala Tibim” party would be ruling in Kenya. This is a questions that for all Kenyans; we must get an answer. Let us get an answer why my people in Rongo, Awendo, Nyatike and Kuria are not registered. Nyatike has two sub-counties, one bordering Tanzania. Suna West also has some other sub- counties. For our young people it has recently been made compulsory that to be acknowledged by the Ministry of Education as being students, they must have birth certificates. The Ministry of Education I using those statistics to allocate resources to them. When they just reach the voting age they do not know what becomes to their legitimacy as Kenyans. Why can the Ministry not just find out where these Kenyans who have just enrolled in class eight and transitioned to fourth are and give them IDs? Why do people have to beg? Why do we have to say it is expensive while we find them in primary and secondary schools? When it comes to being the age of majority so that they can vote all over sudden we start placing barriers. The courts in Rongo, Migori, Kehancha and other places are packed with cases of not having an ID. That is the kind of crap people are arrested for daily. Police all over the nation – not just in Migori- are making a kill out of it. They have something they call “black maria” which also very common in Kajiado. When you see that “black maria” and do not flee for your life, you might end up spending hours of inconvenience at the risk of COVID-19 in some dingy place called the police station. In order to solve this, it is not just for voting. I think it is the right of people to be issued with documents that allow them to fulfil all their desires as adult Kenyans. It will enable them to enter into contracts, get married legitimately, to fall in love and out of love the way they wish because that is also common among young people who are unemployed. It is also their right to talk to anybody they wish to, to drink and not to and to smoke anything lawful. This idea that you can be punished for not having a document that you cannot easily access, I think is not tenable or good. I thank Sen. Dullo and to ask the responsible Committee to specifically look at Migori county. Why cannot the 1.3million people who are residents and “Aborigines” of Migori county be given IDs in large numbers and be looked for so that their political voices are heard? I think this is bad and sinful against our people. I hope the government of the day and of the future will expiate for these sins and repent of them and allow our people to enjoy their rights. I support."
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