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    "id": 393219,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ng’etich",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cecilia Chelangat Ngetich",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also stand to support this Motion that a unified identification system that harmonizes all bio-data be established. This is an opportunity for the digital Jubilee Coalition; having been elected as a digital coalition, to effect that. That way, their slogan of “ Kusema na Kutenda” will be actualized. Hon. Members, this is not something that is unique because in the USA they have established a similar system and they give everybody in the USA a social security number. Through this number one can access one’s bio-data just by the click of the mouse. This is possible in Kenya because even our banks are all interlinked. You can withdraw money from anywhere in Kenya, Uganda and elsewhere abroad. This is possible; it just will take the willingness of the Government of the day to actualize this. With this system in place it will be easier to have replacements. Many a times we lose IDs and we need to replace them. However, because of lack of this system it becomes difficult to get a new ID or a birth certificate. We need to have this unified system; it is mainly to keep data. We may not be able to have one identification document. They might be reduced to three or four of them. I am saying that because we may need identification for a minor and identification for an adult. In the USA, for example, when you get a Driver’s Licence (DL) before you attain the age of 21 years, your photo is put in a landscape position in the DL. When you attain the age of 21 years your photo is put in a portrait position. We will still have a number of identifications, for example a passport on its own, IDs for the adults and IDs for the minors. This Motion has come up because of, among many other things, the tedious exercise of getting this document. I will give an example of the birth certificate. Now that maternity fee has been waived, I am happy and hoping that all mothers who are expecting will actually use these facilities. So, my suggestion is that instead of the hospitals issuing a notification they should issue the certificate there and then. Maybe for those who will be born out of hospitals, because it happens, we have trained midwives who sometimes assist the mothers in the rural areas, the county and ward administrators can issue notifications, and then you can just take it to the nearest office and obtain a birth certificate."
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