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    "id": 196023,
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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Mathenge",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Gender and Children Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Esther Murugi Mathenge",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy 598 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 23, 2008 Speaker, Sir. I must commend the hon. Member for bringing that issue up. It touches on everybody, especially on the eve of elections. That is when everybody panics and starts looking for voters cards and ID cards. If we are going the electronic way, we can register all the births. The Ministry should have a duty of tracking them down when they attain the age of 18 years. They should then be issued with ID cards and voters cards as they leave or after they do their Form IV examinations. We should be able to track those who have not gone up to Form IV and ensure that they have their ID cards and voters cards. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue we have occasionally is with regard to ladies who are in \"come-we-stay\" arrangements. They have not gone to churches and, therefore, they do not have marriage certificates. To get an ID card, they will need an affidavit or their fathers' ID card and authority so that they can take the husband's name. We need to overcome that hurdle because those affidavits, as we all know, are rather expensive, and most people do not want to be involved with them. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other thing I would like to point out to the hon. Member who has brought the Motion: We know that if you are a registered voter in a particular place, you have to change your voter's card in order to be registered in another place. How is it going to work when you have the ID card and voter's card on the same paper? Are you going to be able to vote wherever you are? Are you going to have the ID card changed every time you want to change where you vote? So, you need to look at that issue. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other thing we need to add on the ID card is the Personal Identification Number (PIN). Today, you cannot do any transaction without the PIN number. I would suggest that this is another number that should be added to the ID card and voter's card. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support the Motion, but I think those are the things that need to be looked into. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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