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    "content": "This Bill is quite in order. It is timely, but when I go through it, its main function is to provide security for our identification, namely, the birth certificates and the national identity cards. I do not see the emphasis on how the Service will be funded, so that it can get enough money to provide central data for all Government agents, so that there is no duplication of a person’s data like hon. Oyongo-Nyamweya getting two identification cards. We need to have a system with better security. I would like to ask the Minister to look at the functions at the Committee Stage. We need to come up with a clear system of central information which can be used by the Ministry of Lands, the police and any other Government agent. It should be used by the banks, so that there is no fraud. As far as I am concerned, we need to bring amendments to this Bill at the Committee Stage to give teeth to what we intend to achieve. We need to give teeth to this Bill, so that there is no abuse whereby people get title deeds using fake names. We need to have a system which can go beyond what I am seeing here. As far as I am concerned, this Bill can be better and help this country to avoid duplication and forgery and more importantly, improve the security of this nation. We should not have people getting identity cards when they do not qualify to get them. I believe that if we get a system where we register people using the family tree - because everybody has got a father and a mother - we should be able to create a system whereby banks will not bother to take the individual’s data. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Ministry of Lands should not bother to establish its own data. The central system will be cheap. Unless we do so, we will have an organization like the one that we have. Probably, here we have only restructured the administration. When you look at the Chief Executive Officer, he does not have the independence that he needs and people will ask him to give so-and-so a passport, a visa or an identity card. We need to have a better system. If we want to have this Authority established, we need to have a better system to register our people and from birth, you can track somebody. If he has bought land or taken a loan from the bank, you can track him. This information should be very clear. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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