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    "id": 301138,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajwang",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that there is no Registrars of Births and Deaths stationed in Nandi North District. This is due to the acute shortage of staff. The department can only manage to take its services to 104 districts out of a total current number of 285 administrative districts. We, therefore, serve the affected new districts from their parent districts. (b) I am doing the following to have the officers posted to Kabiyet Town. To address the severe shortage of staff that has constrained the operations of civil registration in all the newly created districts, the Ministry has taken the following short- term and long-term measures. The short-term measure is that the Ministry has recruited casual labourers and borrowed additional staff from other Government Ministries in the field to beef up staff strength in the affected areas. The long-term solution is that the Ministry has sought for an expanded staff establishment from the Ministry of State for Public Service, which they have approved as follows:- 200 civil registration officers, 673 clerical officers, 283 copy typists and 251 support staff. However, the Treasury is yet to confirm and give authority for recruitment due to the ongoing austerity measures. Consultations with the Treasury for authority to recruit the additional staff are still ongoing. Lastly, we are also consulting with the Treasury to get funds to enable us conduct a crash programme of registration to clear all the pending cases of late birth registration."
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