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    "id": 1230567,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1230567/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gilgil, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martha Wangari",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I was hoping that this would be a softer Question because it has no guns, but I can see guns are already coming out. I congratulate the Cabinet Secretary for being the first one in this very unique arrangement, where we will get answers first-hand. This is unlike what we used to go through in the 12th and 11th Parliaments, where committee chairpersons had no substantial answers. I have listened to the Cabinet Secretary very carefully. This matter of birth registration may look small, but the inconveniences it causes to the public at large are huge. If you want to take your child to register for the National Education Management Information System (NEMIS) to join Grade 1, you need a birth certificate. If you want to get a passport, you also need a birth certificate. I am perturbed to hear the Cabinet Secretary say that he has written letters to the Government Printer, an office that is anchored under the same Ministry. I do not have the advantage of the annexes, so I will not speak to the letters. But my follow-up question is: What are the timelines we are looking at? I am asking that because shortages of birth and death registration documents and ID printing materials are treated as normal. How do civil registration services sit in the Ministry in terms of budget allocation, autonomy, and ability to run those services? Number two…"
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