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    "id": 1157245,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill. The main issue here is the single registration. This is so that older registrations that we have in this country, be it voter registration, marriage certificate, birth certificate, death certificate, National ID, driving licence, passports and so on, all those are identities that should be linked to each other because they are identifying one person for various services. That is an important key about it. There are also service identities like in areas of NHIF. We are broadening our social protection. We have support for orphans, vulnerable children, the elderly, people living with disability, farm input, and even school feeding programmes, all these should all be linked because if you do not do that, you will have difficulty in tracing who is doing what and where you are offering services. There is a big problem of double-dipping but, if you have a single system, you can pick people and, if they make a mistake, you close them from everywhere. If you are offering services, you can identify those people everywhere. In my view, that is extremely important. It is also important to note that it affects many Acts and, there will be consequential amendments. This has been taken care of well in the Second Schedule. The most important thing to look at when you get a single identity that carries many things is the issue of security. If one cracks into the system, the person is then exposed everywhere. But we have a Data Protection Act. We have just discussed the National Electronic Single Window System and if you look at these things, they are coming together. I support, but we also have to look at it carefully in the area of data protection and protection of individuals as we expose them to a single identity which, if somebody cracked into it, will expose them severely. With that, I support."
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