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    "id": 1481045,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "That is a question the ladies asked me to put it to the Cabinet Secretary. I would be remiss if I did not put it to you. Maybe there is thinking within the Government as to the capacity of women to be deployed in serious postings such as Washington D.C. Secondly, the problem with the delays in the processing of IDs, as the Cabinet Secretary himself has alluded to, it is a manual process. People have to travel from all across the USA, a country that is far vaster than the European Union (EU). If the Cabinet Secretary would compare the deployment of diplomatic staff in the entire EU, which is smaller in size than the American continent, these people have to travel from all these far distances of five or six-hour flights. Then, you come to the Embassy, and do this manual process as if you are at a District Commissioner’s (DC.'s) office in Kerugoya, then, they are put in a diplomatic bag and sent here. There is no special office for processing of diaspora applications for IDs. They are just lumped together with other applications from, say, Kilifi, Bungoma and Nairobi, yet, there is a department on diaspora affairs that was created. Can the Cabinet Secretary shed light on the responsibilities of this office and what these people do in the diaspora office, if not just concentrate on these applications? Also, what are they doing to automate the processing of ID cards? The feedback was that because we have automated the application and the processing of passports, passports are faster than IDs which are still manual. Hon. Cabinet Secretary, what is the plan for you to address these challenges to ensure that people get these critical documents in good time? I thank you."
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