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    "id": 26341,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wambugu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 149,
        "legal_name": "Clement Muchiri Wambugu",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think the issue of registration is very serious and important to the citizens of this country. I would be proposing that other than just being left open that they “may”, we should say the Service, “shall” establish branches at the lowest level of locations. If you heard right, the deaths registration is done even by the sub-chiefs. I do not see any good reason as to why we cannot take the same service, even the registration of persons and birth down to that level. Most Kenyans have suffered for a long time trying to look for registration officers who are placed all over the country. When you go there, you get long queues of people and you never get your documents in order. I think it is the high time we started harmonizing our documentation of persons. There is no need of having a birth certificate with a particular number. An identity card with a different number, passport with a different number and death certificate most likely will be under a different number, NSSF number different and even a pin number. I think through this Service, we need to look for a way of harmonizing all these documents. I believe one document should be enough to identify an individual. It is my prayer that the new ID card will contain all information relating to an individual. Be it voter’s card and so forth. That one can help this country a lot. With regard to population management data, if this body will be utilized properly, some of these issues like population figures which are varying can be a thing of the past. All these information can be captured as early as possible. However, if we wait until after ten years to do a census, I think that is where things go wrong. With that, we can balance and see which figures could be right even when we do the census after ten years."
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