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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kithure Kindiki",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration",
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    "content": "been identified on the Floor of this House by the Members, there will be a civil registration centre in the next two months, including Wajir. On this Question and the one asked earlier about administrative units, about 80 sub- counties were gazetted just before the last general elections, but are not operational. We do not have the resources to operationalise all those sub-counties. What we decided is to stagger the operationalisation of all the gazetted sub-counties in three years starting the month of June this year. The criteria we will use are the nature of the hardship and inconveniences to service delivery. There is the issue of regional balance too, so that the first criteria of the 20 to 25 sub- counties to be operationalised in the financial year starting June will take care of regions. But considerations will also be made with regard to hardship, size of population and all the other factors. We will come up with criterion which will be fair and which can be shared with Members if they want to know. We will use a criterion to identify those that would come first, second, and then third. Hon. Speaker, I can also report to the House that my Principal Secretary for Internal Security has already approved the recruitment process for those areas where assistant chiefs and chiefs have not been recruited. Therefore, we expect all those positions to be filled within the next 90 days across the country. On a question asked about technology and what we are doing in the old fashion, before the Cabinet is a policy brief that is under consideration on the Universal Personal Identifier (UPI). I think in the next one or two weeks, it will be disposed of so that we can converge on two things which are: Every child in Kenya gets a UPI at birth which becomes their number in schools and whatever number they require. When they are 18 years old, that number is the Identity (ID) number. At the same time and in parallel, there is another UPI for adults who are getting IDs. So, you have a UPI at birth and also for those already in existence. By the time the first adult will use the UPI, it will be 18 years from when we commenced. In the meantime, we are considering, subject to approval by the Cabinet, migrating the current ID into a fourth-generation ID, which is the UPI for adults. It will, of course, do away with the question on Huduma Namba which was not solving the kind of problems that we intend to solve. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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