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    "id": 393270,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wa Kabando",
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        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Motion by my great friend, hon. Nyamai. Consolidation of a database is very important for this country, particularly in order to screen it. It will enable us to have a database that is reliable and predictable. I would urge my colleagues that when this process is initiated, we need to gather courage, as a nation, and particularly the leadership of this country. In some areas, there is a lot of mis-match. During the census, there were a lot of disagreements. But when it came to the registration of voters, we did not see the same reflected. That means that in those areas, there is infiltration by some “citizens” who would not want to be identified or appear on the national radar. It is very important, in terms of improving the security of this country, and in terms of efficiency. So, we should think in terms of having a database, from which we can easily collect personal information. Once the database is consolidated in this manner, and it includes documents like certificates, we can easily identify individuals much more comprehensively. I have in mind the sort of interviews that we carry out in Parliament. You find that there are very few vacancies, but nearly 10,000 people being shortlisted. A lot of man-hours and resources are dedicated to those interviews. We can very easily get eight or 10 people out of 1,000 shortlisted people. In the process, the individual loses so many man-hours and may not know where to go next. So, national identification, screening for security and reliability of the database would be the route to improve our development plans."
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