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    "id": 393170,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/393170/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Iringo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
        "slug": "cyprian-kubai-iringo"
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I rise to support the Motion and in particular the issue of identity cards which I believe has been a big problem to many citizens of this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as the Motion reads, people are taking a lot of time and energy criss crossing different offices and departments of this Government to get various documents which at the end of the day are all just to identify that particular individual. It becomes so cumbersome even to carry the same documents which are just for identification proposes but having been issued by different Government departments. In the current Information and Communication Technology (ICT) era we could be having a single document which could be used to identify an individual at various places of service where we go to get these services. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it beats all reasoning sometimes when you find that in Kenya today we have got two types of identity cards. There are the old generation identity cards which are held by our parents and people who are over 60 years old. When the new generation identity cards were introduced, it became very cumbersome to change the old identification to the new one and the old people gave up. When you go for services in banks or even in voting, you find one is told that he cannot use the old identity card because it is invalid. Since it was given by the same Kenya Government after Independence, I do not see why he should not be given new generation identification card without much ado."
}