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    "id": 1121756,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1121756/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "can give your name to HELB so that you can start being deducted; if you owe Fuliza money and whatever, so that some money can be deducted. I think this is progressive. We need to also look for a way of making Kenyans get their national IDs in a very simple way. Currently, many youths have not been able to register as voters because the processing of their national IDs is so tedious and complicated. When you go there, somebody asks you for your totem. The younger generation do not even know which clan they belong to – their animal totems and those kind of things – even the one asking you does not know his or her totem and do not even know which clan he belongs to. Why subject Kenyans to those difficult things? It is a high time we improve technology. People should be able to access and get IDs in a very simple way, where you are able to log in to a computer, process your ID cards and even birth certificates in a simpler way so that many Kenyans can access the necessary services. When somebody reaches18 years and has completed school, you can now start the process of getting an ID. The process of getting an ID takes almost one to three years in some places. In Endebess, there are people who applied for their IDs in 2019 and up to today, they have not been issued. You can imagine the challenges they are going through in terms of looking for employment and accessing HELB, if they are university students. Hon. Keter’s Bill is progressive and needs to be supported by the House; that should be able to make it simpler for many Kenyans, especially the youth, to access employment. With those few remarks, I support."
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