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    "id": 393241,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/393241/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lomunokol",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mark Lomunokol",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to thank you for giving me the chance to contribute. I also want to congratulate hon. Nyamai for introducing this Motion. This Motion has come at the right time when the country is embracing technology. By enhancing a unified identification system, the security of our citizens will be guaranteed. Terrorists and even drug dealers will find it difficult to access such important documents. The current form of registration is prone to corruption, which makes it easy for criminals to compromise the issuing officers. For example, in the recent recruitment of KDF, some individuals who purported to be from my constituency and had acquired identity cards unlawfully secured the slots that were meant for my energetic and able youths. It is high time that system is introduced to curb such corrupt practices and individuals and to ensure fairness to all the citizens of this country. With regard to the recent terrorist attack in our country, I believe that these terrorists got into this country using those kinds of documents. They must have acquired those documents through corrupt means and they ended up sneaking into this country in the pretext that they were citizens of this country. I, therefore, request all the Members of this House to support this Motion because this is going to promote the security of all our people in the country. It is true that some of our citizens who are elderly, for example, those who are 80 or 90 years old, have not been issued with those documents. Some have even died without getting those documents. The majority of people in our constituency who do not have IDs are the elderly. This shows that the current system is ineffective and should be abolished. It is high time that we embraced technology so that we can move with the rest of the world."
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