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    "id": 1154046,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mukurweini, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Kiai",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Githiaka Kiai",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thank you for the opportunity. I support the Bill. The Bill intends to make it easier and bring together all the documents that relate to citizens and non-citizens of this country. As it has already been said, you already have the foundational and functional systems, and both of them are not connected. The foundational ones are like the general identification documents like the ID cards and birth certificates while the other functional ones are like the Huduma Namba cards. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, perhaps, you have more cards in your wallet than the cash you have. That is why we want to collapse all these documents into one document called the Huduma Namba. It will streamline the legitimacy of citizenship and make sure that we know who was born here, who has a refugee card and who has which document. If you look at Section 7 of this Act, it talks of different kinds of Huduma cards, the minors, adults, foreign nationals and refugees. Enrolment into the NIIMS, a system that is going to operate the Huduma Namba, is going to take place at birth. Once you are born, we are then able to tell who was born where, who is operating from where and it brings into mind the 1984 George Orwell’s Big Brother novel whereby wherever you go, the big brother is watching. It will also make the issue of security easy because the Government will categorise citizens, foreigners and refugees. On top of that, it will also streamline the voter registration. Every other five years, we have a voter registration taking place. Once you are registered at the majority age of 18, it means you do not have to register for voter registration. So, it is a very good Bill."
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