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    "id": 479446,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shidiye",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2070,
        "legal_name": "Mohamed Muktar Shidiye",
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    "content": "waiting card being stopped by police. They are not allowed to travel since they lack identity cards. Such a person is literally an animal; he does not exist as a human being. Even an animal has more freedom than that person because he cannot get access to any Government service, cannot open a bank account, cannot go to University and cannot access Government buildings. He cannot move anywhere. It is really painful when you are a Member of Parliament from that area and you cannot get your people identity cards. They ask why you are not helping them yet they elected you and you are in Government. I have seen mothers who have given birth to eight children and they do not have identity cards. I have seen people who are over 60 years and they do not have identity cards. These people cannot go back to Somalia because they do not come from there. They cannot go to Uganda, Tanzania or anywhere else. They are in this country and they are with us yet they cannot access identity cards. You need to realize that with this kind of situation, there will be insecurity. When you have people who have no hope in life, who live in despondency, it is very dangerous. In the past, it was very easy to get an identity card. Nowadays you are told to hold on to a waiting card as the rest of the documents are processed in Nairobi and they take donkey years. This document is very important. You now see why many youths are joining the Al Shabaab . They are joining these militia groups because we do not have them in any database. They are neither Kenyans, Somalis nor Ethiopians. They end up being refugees in their own country. We want this Government, our Government to heed because if it does not heed, the problem will escalate to higher levels. We did not plan to have refugees in our area. We have many refugees in our area today, and some of them have been there for the last 25 years. Since refugees are given food, they have access to education, good water and good sanitation, we end up having our people registering as refugees, yet they are Kenyans. Those people’s lives are far much better, particularly now when we have drought. Everybody goes there, lives there and he gets those basic services. When your fingerprints are captured into the database of the refugees, it becomes extremely difficult for people to get identity cards. Even people who have identity cards end up losing them 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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