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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. C.M. Nyamai",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Mutisya Nyamai",
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    "content": "I am moving this Motion bearing in mind the background of where we stand today as a country and what has happened in this country. Also, I wish to remind my colleagues what happened at the Westgate Mall. The issue of a unified identification system has a bearing on this. However, before I got there, the history of identification is as old as mankind. Going back to the times of Babylon when slaves were the tools of trade, the rulers then would come up with a system of identifying their slaves as tools of trade. Over time, various countries have come up with various reasons for having identification cards. Back here, every Kenyan knows about an identification card which is synonymous to being Kenyan. Of course, it gives a person his identification. Without going far away, even in this House, for me to address this sitting, it is an identification that I have been given by Parliament which helps me to get a chance to contribute. As I move this Motion, it pains me. One, of my daughters who applied for an identification card on 23rd May, has not got it. In today’s newspapers, IEBC says that 6 million Kenyans did not vote because they did not have identification cards. When Form IV leavers book their exams, they go through pain because of birth certificates. When you are registering a company in this country, what you go through in terms of various documents that are required is not easy. What has happened in this country in terms of identification card, passports, NSSF number, PIN, electors card et cetera is that, technology has gone to a level where all this information can be put in one small chip. It is a simple card that we are using for 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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