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    "id": 1154021,
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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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    "content": "documents, they had to go to different centres. With Huduma Centres, now we have a one-stop shop to access all these documents. Huduma cards will serve all these purposes. The world is moving towards digitisation. One does not have to carry all these cards around. They need to be consolidated into one card. This will also reduce crime because if you break a traffic rule and your card is scanned, it will indicate how many times you have done that. There will be a central system where we can access all the information of an individual. Some people are complaining that some departments in the ministries will be done away with. If that is true, so be it. At the moment, our wage bill is over the roof. We are even planning to reduce it. If this Huduma Bill will do away with some departments, then it will reduce the wage bill that we are struggling with. Hon. Members, when we come to the Committee of the whole House, we should make sure that human rights, especially the confidentiality of this information, is guarded. There should be enough checks and balances to ensure that the information we voluntarily give to the Government is safeguarded for the interest of each of us and for the security of the country. If this information falls in wrong hands, it can be used to cripple our economy. We have heard of wash wash criminals who can withdraw money from your account without your knowledge. They even use digital platforms for their conmanship. We should ensure that this information is safely guarded to avoid such issues. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is also true that children under the age of six years will have Huduma Namba Card. Let us make sure that this does not contravene our Constitution. These are the only areas I had doubt on. All in all, I urge Members of this House to support this Bill, because this is a very important card. Globally, Kenya is not an island. In America, they use only one card. Every system is digitised to an extent that you can use your card to do shopping and access all the services in America. We should move towards that direction so that even investors can have confidence coming to this country. We will be doing disservice to our country when we ask them to acquire many cards yet where they come from, they only have one card. Lastly, I want to congratulate the Leader of Majority for bringing this Bill and the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security led by Hon. Mwathi, who is a competent Chairperson. When we were de-whipped, they made the right thing to appoint Hon. Mwathi to that Committee. He was once my Chairman in the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare and he is a man of means. He is also known as muthuri wa muthigi which means that he has been recognised as a leader by the Kikuyu elders. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support."
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