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    "id": 393238,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/393238/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gaichuhie",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 17,
        "legal_name": "Nelson Ributhi Gaichuhie",
        "slug": "nelson-gaichuhie"
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    "content": "The purpose of a unified system will reduce the number of transactions people have to undergo for identification, namely, an identity card, birth certificate and a death certificate. All those documents are given by the same Government. With a unified identification system, the minute somebody is born, when he attains the age of maybe acquiring a driving license, the same document can be used by keying in more information. In case of marriage, more information will be keyed on the same document. Whenever one identifies himself as Nelson, they will know that Nelson is a married person, works for so and do and he can drive without having to produce many documents. Some are even digital and can be recognized in banks. Banks do not have to give you a bank card. With the identification card, you can access all the services that you may require. So, with a unified identification card, you can even track anybody who decides to run away from one town to another. That is because any transaction that he undertakes will show where he is. So, when we are tracking down people - like the rampant matatu drivers - who cause accidents in certain towns and go to other towns to drive there. They are known to move to another town after causing various accidents. It will be very easy to track them. It will also be very easy to track somebody and know whether he or she was born in Kenya. You do not have to take them through the vetting process as in the case of the people of Somalia or Turkana origin, who have to be vetted before they are given identification cards. If all those things are computerized, it will be very easy to access any service that he wants in Kenya using the same card. This is a very timely Motion and the Jubilee Government should take up the matter and speed up the issues, so that we do not have to carry so many cards. With those few remarks, I support the Motion and ask hon. Nyamai to bring a Bill, which we will also support and come up with an Act of Parliament. We can then force the Government to take up the matter."
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