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"speaker_name": "Mr. Kajwang",
"speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons",
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"content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Kenya Citizens and Foreign Nationals Management Service Bill be read a Second time. This is an Act of Parliament to establish the Kenya Citizens and Foreign Nationals Management Service to provide for the creation and maintenance of a national population register and the administration of laws relating to births, deaths, identification and registration of citizens, administration of laws relating to marriages and for connected purposes. Part one is the preliminary part with the short title and the interpretation section. The more substantive one is Part 2 that deals with the establishment and composition of the Service. Part 3(1) establishes the Kenya Citizens and Foreign Nationals Management Service, which shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal. Of course, that gives them the power to sue and be sued, borrow money, lend money, charge fees, enter into contracts and perform all the things that a corporation may perform. The functions of this service are on page 1278, Clause 4(1). It states as follows:- “The Service shall, under the general supervision of the Cabinet Secretary, be responsible for the implementation of policies, laws and other matters relating to citizenship and immigration, births, deaths, marriages, identification, registration of persons, issuance of identification, travel documents, foreign nationals management and the creation and maintenance of a comprehensive national population register.” Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the departments that fall under the Ministry of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons are departments that actually deal with the registration of persons, but of different category. For example, we have the Civil Registration that deals with the registration at birth. We have the Registration of Persons. We call it the National Registration Bill which deals with the registration of persons at 18 years and above. We also have a department that deals with immigration. We also have a department that deals with refugees affairs where we also register them. Recently, we created a department that deals with National Population Register; that is, all registrations have an umbrella body that keeps the data of every citizen. We have asked the Attorney-General and he has accepted that the other registration that was not under our docket; the registration of marriages and divorce, because it is a very important data when you want to know who is the child of who and the mother and father of who, it is important that that register can also be incorporated into the entire national register. So, what we are seeking here is to create a corporate body that will deal with all registration matters under the general supervision of the Cabinet Secretary with respective departments, but working together. If you have a question on a matter of registration, then you have a one stop shop where you go and you get the details of the individual. The other reason why we thought this is necessary is because sometimes, they are managed from different Ministries and departments. It is very difficult to co-ordinate the national register. However, if they are under one service, then all of them will be reporting to the leadership of that service. Therefore, if you want to be sure whether this"
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