{"id":235835,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/235835/?format=json","text_counter":152,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. M.Y. Haji","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":26,"legal_name":"Yusuf Mohammed Haji","slug":"yusuf-haji"},"content":"asked the Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons:- (a) whether he is aware that issuance of passports is taking a long time, contrary to the Government policy that the same be processed promptly; (b) whether he is further aware that people from North Eastern Province wait for passports even longer due to a vetting exercise conducted in Nairobi; and, (c) who constitutes the vetting panel and why this exercise cannot be undertaken at the provincial or district level."}