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    "id": 479456,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyura",
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        "legal_name": "Michael Aringo Onyura",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute to this Motion. I thank hon. Diriye for bringing it up. It is very timely and perhaps overdue. This is a very important Motion. It touches on a very fundamental right of the citizens of this country. The Constitution provides that every citizen of this country has a right to get access to these documents, namely, the identity card, the passport or any other identification document that then enables them to carry out all manner of transactions. An identity card in this country is almost a matter of life and death. Without the identity card, you may not be able to do many things. In fact, the presumption would be that if you do not have an identity card, you are not a citizen of this country. So, I fail to understand why the Government that is supposed to be looking after the welfare of all its citizens would deny this fundamental document that is enshrined even in the Constitution to its citizens. This has been done through imposing so many rules and bureaucracy. Unfortunately, the officials that are charged with the responsibility of issuing these documents take advantage of all these rules and bureaucracy to extort money from the citizens. One of the complaints that we come across as Members of Parliament in our constituencies is on the issue of identity cards. People complain that the registration officials corruptly issue these identity cards or extort bribes from the citizens. 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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