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    "id": 113907,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/113907/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maj. Sugow",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Public Service",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 142,
        "legal_name": "Aden Ahmed Sugow",
        "slug": "aden-sugow"
    },
    "content": "One of the major problems facing many youths in this country today is lack of identity cards. This problem is even exasperated further by lack of sufficient infrastructure, equipment and personnel on the part of the Ministry of Immigration and Registration of Persons. My constituency is merely 19,000 square kilometers and has one Assistant Registration Officer who is not even confirmed. He has no office, a vehicle or even a bicycle. How do we want him to conduct registration in a 19,000 square kilometre district without a vehicle? This is just a mockery. Seriously, we are not serious about helping our youth. As a Government, this is where we should have been investing. We are denying the youth a chance to go to college and even to get employment with the meager Form Four certificates that they have. I seriously would like to appeal to the Treasury to give more money to this Ministry. I urge the Ministry concerned to come out clearly and seek the support of this House and its relevant Committees to pressure the Treasury to give it more money. That is a very important exercise for all youth. We talk about supporting our youths all the time. We talk about youth programmes, most of which have failed such as the Kazi kwa Vijana . Why can we not just give them the requisite national documents, so that they can fend for themselves? We are totally incapacitating them or denying them the necessary capacity to fend for themselves. Recently, some youths from North Eastern constituencies were repatriated together with alien Somalis. These are youth who are known. They are Kenyans who, let alone their parents, even their ancestors have never seen Somali and they were repatriated by our courts. These are very painful experiences that our youth are undergoing as a result of lack of this crucial document. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
}