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    "id": 1230615,
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    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration",
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    "content": "(Hon. (Prof.) Kithure Kindiki): Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As I have told the House on the issue of operationalisation of the administrative units that are gazetted and not operational, we are finalising criterion which will help us implement the recommendations of this House in the Motion which was cited by the Member for Gilgil. This will ensure that every sub-county has a civil registry. We have taken a list of all the sub-counties that do not have civil registry and we want to implement it. They are quite many unlike the sub-counties. We want to implement that Motion in the next five years but based on some criterion. Just as in the first case with sub- counties, the criterion will be as follows: First, all those that will get centres. Right now, if I could explain this for half a minute, we are opening those centres on the request of individual Members of Parliament like I cited the Kajiado North one. That was a request from the Member of Parliament. I also cited the Imenti South one. The Member for Imenti South can confirm that he is the one who wrote and requested for a centre. We felt that, perhaps, we should have an objective criterion so that we can make sure that the implementation of the recommendations of this House is done fairly and equitably so that every part of the country is covered. The criteria will involve regional diversity so that in the first year, every region of our country will be represented in those that will be opened. Also, special and unique circumstances like topography, hardship population, and so forth will be considered. Going forward, to avoid public complaints at a future date, and now that this tradition of cabinet secretaries appearing before the House has begun, I will be more than happy later on, when the opportunity happens, to provide an update to the House on where we are and the criterion we shall be using. By that time, we will have adopted it and even rolled it out to ensure that no part of the country is favoured or left out. On the Wajir issue and generally northern Kenya, Upper Eastern, Upper Coast, and pastoral areas, I think special attention will be given to those areas. I have been there and I know it is quite challenging when one has to travel as was the case raised by the Member for Lamu East. One person uses Ksh10,000 to travel to get a birth certificate whereas another uses Ksh50 to and fro. All these factors will be taken into consideration because we want an equitable country where public policy is informed by objective criteria."
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