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    "id": 1157243,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyeri Town, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ngunjiri Wambugu",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Deric Ngunjiri Wambugu",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support the Huduma Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 57 of 2021). At the outset, I am member of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security. I would like to focus this House on the primary reason why this Bill is important. In the corporate sector today, we have big emphasis on what we call “know your customer” where for you to serve your customer well, you need to know as much as possible about that customer. The Government’s primary customer is the Kenyan citizen or a member of the Kenyan population. As it is right now, the information of this client is scattered in all manner of places. We have drivers’ licence in one place, IDs somewhere else and immigration passports somewhere else. That means that the Government is not efficient in how it serves the customer. The purpose of this Bill is to create efficiency and transparency on how the Government is serving its customer. The most exciting part about this Bill is the ability to consolidate all the information we have about our Kenyan population. That will allow us to plan and allocate resources to the right places. Once we know our customer, the citizens, and the people living with us, even if they are foreigners in terms of what they need, where they are, their level of education and abilities, we can allocate resources to them efficiently. This Bill is going to take us in that direction. Of course, there have been concerns. In this age of technology, there are concerns about what will happen with that information. That information exists as it is right now. If it is going to be misused, it has been misused. In fact, this Bill creates a capacity for that information to be protected more than it is being protected now. The other thing that is important for us as we think about and we consider this Bill is that we have been served by laws that were made before this country got independence in many capacities. We need to take this country to the level of the 21st and 22nd Century. This Bill is taking us there. I also want to raise the fact that once we have a single source of information on the Kenyan population, our ability to function as a nation; and to deal with very many other things will be enhanced. Just before this Bill, we had the Bill on the single entry for purposes of managing trade. Many laws that we pass in this House depend on us having an efficient and effective process of managing the information we have about our population. The Huduma Bill will help this country. It will take us to the level where we are more efficient, effective and transparent. It is going to serve every Government moving forward from here to plan and allocate resources well and ensure those of us in this House are able to represent those who elected us efficiently. It is also going to be a platform for us to access information even of our own respective constituencies and counties so that when we are representing the people who elected us, we are able to do it from a point of information. I support. Thank you. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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