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    "id": 243180,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/243180/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Awori",
    "speaker_title": "The Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moody Arthur Awori",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that there are people from Ijara and other parts of North Eastern Province 2024 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 12, 2006 who were registered as Kenyan nationals as well as refugees. They are about 4,000 people. (b) I am not aware that those people have been denied registration and issuance of identity cards. Some of them held Kenyan identity cards before the influx of Somali refugees in 1992. However, when the Government undertook to register and issue alien identification cards to refugees, in Dadaab in 2004, it was discovered on finger printing applications that, some of them have already been finger printed and given identity cards as citizens of Kenya. These people can use their identity cards to vote if they go back to their respective constituencies. (c) For Kenyans who went to live in and around the camps and have attained the majority age, the Ministry will set up a committee comprising of officials from the National Registration Bureau, Refugees Department, the Provincial Administration as well as local leadership to screen and recommend the issuance of national identity cards if they qualify. This will be a rigorous exercise that requires the support of every stakeholder."
}