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    "id": 479580,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Opiyo",
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odhiambo Opiyo",
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    "content": "the Committee on Budget and Appropriations should in future take up that matter seriously. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the regions that are far-flung at the border districts of Kenya have a lot of problems in registration of persons. There are a lot of excuses and convoluted vetting process that ends up alienating people. I think we should come up with ways that will enable our people get identity cards. In my own interpretation, these are just documents for identification. Why then can we not even legislate and allow children as young as 15 years to get identity cards while they are still in school? These days many students who graduate to universities are younger than 18 years of age and they cannot access loans from Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) because they do not have identity cards. We should legislate and allow children of 15 years of age to have identity cards, because ultimately it shows their age. Hon. Deputy Speaker, there has been a lot of skewed resource allocation to the office of the Registrar of Persons in this country. Like the area I come from, those people have got offices and officers who do without finances and without vehicles to move around and do mobile registration. I think hon. Diriye could have brought this Motion at a better time. It is timely and we really have to confront this issue. We must compel the Government of the day to ensure that they avail resources, vehicles, manpower and enough facilitation funds so that our people are registered. We cannot live in a country where a certain section of our population cannot access simple things like banking facilities or even joining groups. There are groups you cannot join without registering as a citizen. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think we have to re-look at the way we distribute resources to the National Bureau of Registration in this country. With those few remarks, I beg to support the Motion as amended."
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