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    "content": "they will be moving from location to location, so that those movements can also be announced in advance. That way, Kenyans will come out to be registered. That money is supposed to be used for fuel and for allowances for elders who will be helping with the identification of those who are supposed to be registered. We are using the chiefs and the elders because in some areas, we may not be too sure whether that person is a Kenyan, especially if they do not have any documents. Something which looked like an expense but which we have now dealt with is that if somebody came to be registered, but there is no documentation to show the age of that person, it is difficult to enter haphazardly any age. So, we used to ask them to go to a clinical officer or medical officer of health to determine the age. They used to check the teeth or gum or whatever they used to check, and write a report. But that reports cost most of the applicants about Kshs200, which they thought was paid for registration. We have now dealt with that. We have said that the registrars in consultation with the chiefs and elders can determine the age of an applicant and there is a certificate to that extent. The only other thing that used to bother mostly young people, and it has caused a big backlog, is that of young women who are married in locations where they were not born. Because those are foreign locations to them, nobody knows them very well there. We used to ask them to go back home to obtain identification of their parents which, sometimes, became a problem. Because of that problem, young women would then later on give birth and, before you know it, they are mothers-in-law themselves before they are registered as Kenyans. So, we have now said that any lady who is married somewhere else and would want to be registered, the husband and herself would complete a form - which we have provided - and the chief would sign to certify that they are married. That would be sufficient evidence to register the married woman. Another thing that I have said, and which is being carried out as policy now, is that the decision of the chief and the elders is sufficient to identify somebody. We should not have another identification bureau somewhere at the headquarters. That is because the people who know the Kenyans are the people on the ground."
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