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    "id": 333268,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamalwa",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 148,
        "legal_name": "Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, to start with the last question from hon. Njuguna, we do not need high standard cards. Through the rules and regulations and the law that we passed here, we no longer require voter card. In fact, those receipts are not mandatory. Whether it is laminating or creating high standard ones, I think it has given the public the wrong impression that those are voters’ cards. There are some areas where actually hon. Members have refused to go until their cards are laminated. I think we want to disabuse the members of the public of that. You will only be required to have your identity cards during the voting. That is the only document you will present during the voting. On the issue of identity cards and waiting cards raised by hon. Khalwale, the youth of this country have spoken about it before. When I was appointed to the Cabinet, there were about 4 million youths that were anticipated to have, for the first time, the opportunity to participate in this historic election and they were in danger of being left out. But hon. Kajwang has already assured us that very many of them have been issued with identity cards. There are many identity cards that are at the collection centres. We would like the young people of this country to go for them. But we would really welcome the proposed amendment that can allow people with the waiting cards or other forms of identification to participate in this historic election. That will really help in ensuring that those many Kenyans with waiting cards are not left out. Kenyans with old identity cards, particularly the senior citizens, are also not left out. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of those who are starting or reporting late like the case of Bondo, reporting at 11 a.m. is not allowed. That will really be robbing the citizens of that area of the limited time to register and right to register. We would like any of the staff that reports late or that are lax in the discharge of their duties to have their names reported to IEBC, so that action can be taken. We have very limited time. As I have said, every hour counts. If you were to lose three hours in a day and given the remaining few days to the closure of registration, you would really have robbed and denied many Kenyans the opportunity to register as voters."
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