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    "id": 479557,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/479557/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Otuoma",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 132,
        "legal_name": "Paul Nyongesa Otuoma",
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    "content": "Thank you Temporary Deputy Speaker, I hope you are going to add me some more time. As we have said, many young people are the ones who are affected; young men and women who are just leaving schools and they want to find their positions in society. They want to look for opportunities to cater for their livelihoods. Those are the people who are denied the identity cards and they cannot be able to access any services. They cannot be able even to register companies. We have talked now about affirmative action of 30 percent procurement. If the young men and women are unable to access identity cards, they cannot even register those companies that are needed for them to be able to participate in this procurement quarter that they have been given of 30 percent. It is also very clear that in some areas when those registrars are sent, the vetting process which is supposed to be done by the chiefs, the assistant chiefs, the council of elders and the national security, sometimes, those young people should be given identity cards. But you find the registrars still refusing and either asking for baptism cards from churches that we do not understand and yet, the local people have already identified that, that person belong to that area. He is neither a Ugandan nor an Ethiopian. That is a process that needs to be streamlined. Once the chief or the assistant chief or the elders have already ascertained that, that person is known and born in that area, that should be guarantee enough to say: “This is a Kenyan and should not be subjected to further discrimination or denial of getting the identity cards.” It has also come to my attention that one of the issues that today we call tyranny of numbers starts with discrimination in issuing of identity cards to certain parts of this Republic. That is where the problem starts. How do you explain that you can have a high percentage of people with identity cards but when it comes to voter registration, discrepancy is so high? In other areas, when you have got identity cards, and you look at the voter registration, there is some similarity or some correlation? But in other areas, how does somebody manage to register for an identity card and yet the same person cannot be registered as a voter? This is something that we need to look into, so that when the issuance of IDs is streamlined properly, we should be able to look and say that since representation is a basic human right, those people with IDs must be able to get their voters card without such a large discrepancy like we have seen in some parts of this 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."
}