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    "id": 479457,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyura",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 12833,
        "legal_name": "Michael Aringo Onyura",
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    "content": "The Government has put too many rules and so there is so much bureaucracy. In my view, this registration should even be done at school level because it will assist in speeding up the issuance of identification cards. This will be very easy because we have records of our children from the time they join nursery school through to primary school and even secondary school. By the time they are finishing secondary school; nearly 60 per cent or even a higher percentage have attained the age of 18 years. I do not see where the difficulty is if that could be one of the avenues for registering our citizens. It will be easier because the records are already there. We should also promote mobile registration centres because there are remote areas where it may be difficult for citizens to go to registration centres. We should have mobile units in villages to ensure that all our people are registered. What is important and what is impeding registration is the issue of corruption. That is what should be addressed. I would really want to invite the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to move into these areas to see what is happening. This is because it easier for a non-citizen to be registered than a citizen. It is very ironical. With those remarks, I support the Motion."
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