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    "id": 1378411,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Embakasi West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mark Mwenje",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Theuri",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support my colleague from Embakasi Central. In Nairobi, our constituencies are quite close to one another. Conducting recruitment in one venue creates a disadvantage because it is impossible to determine the wards that candidates come from. It is important that we follow the criteria that were given by the Cabinet Secretary (CS). It is a very good criterion. However, it would have been fair if we involved the use of the voters' register to determine where candidates come from. Secondly, I would like the Chair to take note of the issue of where one gets their identification card (ID). For instance, I got my ID while I was still at Alliance High School in Kikuyu. I am sure you do not know that some of us went there. My ID does not read that I am from Embakasi Constituency. People who had ID cards that were reading Murang'a or Nyeri were chased away and advised to go to where they got their IDs. That is a very unfair system. Those people got their IDs there, but they reside in Nairobi. Those are some of the issues that need to be addressed. I hope that when the Chair responds to this Statement, he will give us a good explanation. We must insist that the voter's register is used in Nairobi to determine the number of beneficiaries from each ward as per the list given by the CS. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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