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    "speaker_name": "Mr. C. Kilonzo",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Mutavi Kilonzo",
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    "content": "I am also reminded of a party card, more so if you are a former KANU man! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the cost of producing identity cards and voters cards is very high. It is only fair that the Government reduces the expenditure and effectively combines the two documents. The additional information required in the identity card is the elector's number and the constituency. During voting time, it is even more interesting. Before you vote, if you have your voter's card you are asked for your identity card, if you do not have the identity card, you cannot vote! In the first place, when you were getting the voter's card, they asked you for your identity card and if you did not have it, you would not have been given a voter's card. Let us save money and time. Let us reduce unnecessary expenses on the Government. Let us combine both documents. As far as we are concerned, there is no reason why we should not do that. If you look at the way the Government issues identity cards, you will observe that it does so after people have made noise complaining that the youth do not have identity cards. The Government then waits for you to complain again that the youth do not have electors cards, which they take time to give. In Western countries, the information carried in those two documents is one. If you have an identity card, then it also serves as a voter's card. That is in countries which use identity cards. In other cases, even a driving licence suffices. This is a very clear Motion which should not raise any controversy. We are the ones advising the Government. The Government is saying it has no money and we are now showing it how to save. One way of saving is to combine the information on those two documents and produce one document. We all know the problem with our Government. Since the time this Government was able to meet the Recurrent Expenditure by collecting taxes, innovations or ideas disappeared. Yes, we know that you are doing a good job by collecting taxes, but let us think. As we collect taxes, what other savings can we make in terms of expenditure? That is very simple. One of the easiest ways is to combine these two documents. If this is agreed upon, there is no reason why we cannot do it. If it is the issue of legislation that is a problem, bring it here and we will change it. If it is the issue of policy, bring it here. As far as we are concerned, a debate on this Motion should take very little time. With those few remarks, I beg to second."
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