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    "id": 393181,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2749,
        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
        "slug": "col-rtd-ali-rasso-dido"
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    "content": "Coming from Marsabit, that borders Ethiopia, the issue of acquiring identification cards and birth certificates is not easy. Unless something is done many young people are not able to access jobs, colleges and they cannot freely move around in their own country. In other countries, just having the national social security number and a driving licence, enables one to transact all the business which the can do. In Kenya, this is far from it. Having a birth certificate, national identification card and passport are constitutional documents. Where one should be able to access jobs, also security documents and documents that the taxman uses to tax citizens should be available. For people to get a sim-card registration, they must have documents which show who they are. The issue of IDs, birth certificates and their role is enshrined in the Constitution; under the Bill of Rights, Article 20. It clearly spells out that. Although we are going to say that let us have a single document that identifies Kenyan citizens, but the question before us is that, before we reach that point, will we have a system in place? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when young persons in school reach the age of 17 years, they should be issued with ID cards because know abode, birth, profession and parentage. Therefore the issue of ID does not actually become cumbersome. Other areas that are of concern to me and my fellow legislators is once a person fills forms at the district level, it is not known how long it is going to take before the ID card is issued. Unless those involved in issuance of ID cards and other important documents put a timeframe, many of our citizens are really inconvenienced."
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