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    "id": 393210,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nderitu",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Waweru Nderitu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to support this Motion. We all know the importance of identification documents in our day-to-day lives. An example is the birth certificate. On the Children Rights Day, I said that we needed to have the birth certificate issued as a child goes through postnatal care. We know that once a child is born in Kenya, he has to go through postnatal care. It should be a rule that by the time that process is completed the birth certificate should be out automatically. Each new born baby has a number. That is the number which should be used to produce a birth certificate for that baby. In my constituency, I have members of the Turkana, Maasai and Somali communities. Every time they apply for identity cards, they face a lot of problems. They are forced to go and look for their kin. Despite the fact that they are born there, in the local clinics, they are forced to go all the way to Turkana County and look for their kin in order for them to be issued with that important document called “birth certificate”. As Kenyans, we know that we start running up and down at the last hour. Every parent knows that a birth certificate is required for registration of their children for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, but they never look for the document until the time for registration comes, when they are told that it is compulsory to produce the document. They start looking for the document but they cannot get it. They have to meet the cost of late registration. Once you get the number that was issued to the baby at birth, there should be no need of being told that you are from our border with Somalia and, therefore, it is not clear whether you are Kenyan or an Ethiopian. Such excuses should become history. The birth certificate should be used for issuance of identity cards, driving licence and all other documents. We have a central bureau of registration of persons. Once you get all those documents, there is a central point where their data can be stored. My good friend, hon. Wilbur, said that we have to amend the Registration of Persons Act, so that we make the Government act. We are digital. We have talked so The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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