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    "id": 479583,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) T.G. Ali",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Tiyah Galgalo Ali",
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    "content": "One of them is the identity cards which are very important documents. Many of the students and the youth from some of areas including Wajir, Garissa, Isiolo and Marsabit fear being arrested. Some of them cannot even come to Nairobi. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it takes too long for these identity cards to be issued and I do not know if the Ministry and the department concerned with the issuance of identity cards have a service charter. Sometimes the issuance of identity cards takes like six to seven months and this puts the youth who are looking for these documents at an awkward situation. Most of them cannot even get jobs. Sometimes, jobs are advertised including, for example, for uniformed officers like the police, the army and the rest. The requirement is that one has to have an identity card. That has not been very fruitful. The Ministry or the department concerned should give timelines on how long identity cards should take to be ready and be given to the youth. Some of the youth just sit there and wait for months and years and the identity cards are never issued. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would also want to talk about corruption that is going on in the National Bureau of Registration of Persons. I think this is one of the areas where we have seen corruption of the highest order. Officers who are there, including the vetting Committees collect money from the public and the youth who are looking for identity cards. In the process, many of the people who do not have goodwill for this country get identity cards through corruption. At the end of the day these brings a lot of problems to this country. I want to give an example of a county that had a vetting committee member who was brought on board and about 400 youth were approved, but when the identity cards got to the Director of the Bureau, those identity cards were returned after about four months. The concerned committee member was said to be a foreigner and yet he was given the role of vetting people. Therefore, I think we should ensure that we also have the right people to give out these identity cards. The vetting committee which is supposed to be vetting people should be constituted properly so that we do not get embarrassed at the end of the day. 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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