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    "id": 393156,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2511,
        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I rise to support this Motion. The multiplicity of ID Cards leads to gross inefficiencies and gray areas and I think this needs to be simplified. I am in total agreement with that. The issues of identifications of all kinds need to be treated with tremendous care and rigor. We have many people who have entered this country from neighboring countries and from the Asian Sub-Continent. These people have been able to acquire these documents in the shortest of time even though they would not have followed due process. In the process of seeking this unification, it will give a chance to this country to relook at fake IDs that would have been issued and also look at whether or not the people who acquired them did so legally and may help in the process of combating illegal entry that one can logically and reasonably suspect may be linked to acts that are improper including our safeguarding issues around terrorism. If you cannot identify who is a national then you may get bad elements. Nationals too, of course, can be terrorists, but I am talking about gate keeping so that we are able to lock out the bad elements that enter our country. We should get to a point where all our life transactions are around a single code or number. When you are paying your taxes, claiming NSSF and NHIF you should be using a single number that should hopefully be granted at birth. We do not have to wait for a person to be 18 years old to begin seeking that number. The child should be identified in all the benefits that he or she might get and all the hospitals visits they make. As they join primary schools, they should stick with that number. Many countries do this. This should be an obvious service that is proactively provided by the State. It should not be a lengthy process that makes parents run from office to office in order to get this done. We need to empower administrators who otherwise would not have had a role in this simply because it is a tight gate. Wherever there is tight gatekeeping there are always incentive structures that get developed around queues. I support this Motion and look forward to the day when this registration process will be seamless, smooth and hustle-free. People should not wait until they are 18 years in order to get an ID. With those few remarks, I support the Motion."
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