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    "id": 1181073,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "Those who fail to get their IDs on time, lose on accessing next level opportunities for their tertiary education. We have many needy students who would not go to any tertiary institution unless they have capitation or Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) that we currently provide. When they cannot access these funds, they fall out of school. You may know that to access HELB or capitation, one of the requirements is that you must give your ID. Therefore, if this child is unable to get their ID on time, then they just fall out of school because their parents cannot afford for them to join those tertiary institutions. The Senate will agree that the effect of these delays violate the rights of these students, marginalize them further and stigmatize them because they then do not see the need of continuing with education because their peers have moved on and they do not have anything to do. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when some of these students fail to join the tertiary institutions, the logical next step for them is to do some business or enter into some employment. Again, the opportunities in business, including accessing the empowerment funds, like the newly established ‘Hustler Fund’ can only be disbursed to those with IDs. This chain of misfortunes keeps following these needy students and marginalize them further. It is no wonder that we are perpetuating poverty as we move on. This menace can be cured by facilitating school-based registration and issuance of IDs in a simple administrative action that can be adopted and achieved through the collaboration between the Ministry of Education and the Registrar of Persons to deliver this important empowerment tool to our Form Four leavers. In view of the gravity of the issues that I raised, I request that the matter be referred to the Standing Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations to look into the following issues- (1) Outline the measures that can be put in place before the end of January 2023, to create a system that can fast track the processing and issuance of IDs to Form Four students, every year, to enable them to equally access tertiary institutional admissions and business opportunities in a timely manner; (2) Inform the Senate on what can be done to facilitate equitable access to IDs in a timely manner to all citizens who attain the age of majority in all regions of Kenya; (3) Indicate ways in which the Government is addressing delays in issuance of national IDs to Kenyan citizens in border counties; and, (4) Propose solutions to streamline the process of registration and issuance of national IDs to eliminate the corruption and transactional operations by officers involved as well as the politicization of this process."
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