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"speaker_name": "Mr. Isaac Muoki",
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"content": " Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. Since I am contributing for the first time in the Tenth Parliament, I would like to introduce myself as Isaac Muoki, the Member for Kitui South. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to support this Motion. If you look at the Kenyan situation, you will find that we have so many documents in our wallets. We have ID cards, voters card, driving licence, PIN card and so many other cards. If we went further and combined those documents, it would be easier for us to carry a single document that can do all that process. At the same time, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will realize that there is a lot of time- wasting in the issuance of ID cards. We have experiences and instances where people have taken three years or more just to get an ID card. We also have even more serious cases where students who have finished Form IV do not have ID cards. They cannot be enroled in colleges or recruited into the armed forces. Therefore, they forego such chances and, maybe, by the time they get those documents, they are past the recruitment age and, therefore, it becomes a lost opportunity the youngsters in the country. So, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, at the same time of combining those documents, I would also like to urge the Minister in charge of registration of those documents for the time being, to ensure that we have a quick process such that those ID cards can be given instantly. I remember that when we were changing from the old ID cards in 1979 to the new generation ID cards, we were getting them instantly. So, if there can be a way of issuing those cards at the location instantly, it will ease the whole process. With a chain of cards where the assistant chief, chief and the district officer April 23, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 599 have to sign, that process is exposed to corruption. Therefore, you will find that the process is not moving. So, with that kind of arrangement, we can have a document that is issued instantly. That will solve all the problems. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we also have another problem of registration, especially with regard to the married women. You will find that they are required to swear an affidavit. Some areas are very far from the courts or the lawyers. Therefore, somebody will have to spend so much money to go and see a magistrate or an advocate, come back and through that process, some of them even opt not to get the ID cards. Therefore, they miss that chance. So, we need to have an arrangement that will not require magistrates and advocates. I am sure that the chiefs and assistant chiefs know everybody in the village. They should be used as a quick way of issuing those cards. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it will also be very important for students to get ID cards when they leave secondary schools. That way, as they go out, they are Kenyans. They can participate fully in those processes. That will ease a lot of problems that our youths are going through. You will realize that most of our youths never voted during the last elections, not because of the voter's card, but the problem was with the ID cards. So, if the students had been issued with ID cards instantly, they would have obtained their voter's cards and, possibly, the voting pattern would have changed because, maybe, the youth would have voted differently and, possibly, that would have indicated a different voting pattern. So, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am urging the Minister to quicken that process, so that Kenyans could enjoy having those documents. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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