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    "id": 30641,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/30641/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 195,
        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
    },
    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the National Household Census Survey of 2009 projects that there will be 22 million people above the age of 18 years and eligible to vote by the year 2012. This will be an increment of 10 million people from the current 12 million registered voters. In order not to disenfranchise the 10 million people, the Government needs to issue at least 10 million new national identity cards in addition to clearing the backlog of applications and lost cards. The production of identity cards stalled due to lack of consumables namely materials for publication of the cards. This occasioned a huge backlog across the country. The National Registration Bureau has accumulated 650,000 applications since March. The accumulated backlog of processed applications, however, stands in excess of 800,000 cases. Since the beginning of this week, issuance of cards has resumed after the Ministry of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons received production materials. Materials used in the production of the ID cards, we all know today have been out of the market for some time now. However, the Ministry of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons obtained these materials from factory abroad. The material will be enough to produce 400,000 types of IDs. At the exhaustion of the regular materials, we will issue plastic ID cards. Materials for such cards and machines for printing them have already been ordered and will be installed by the end of August when the production will start. The old machines that we had for producing the current cards have been retired, except one which will be producing 400,000 cards. The new machines being brought in will be able to produce 50,000 identity cards."
}