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    "id": 487800,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Simba",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Paul Simba Arati",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I wanted to point out a number of issues here given that hon. Diriye tried to only single out three counties, namely Wajir, Garissa and Mandera. But you know very well that issuance of identity cards has been skewed in favour of regions that support those is in power. It is important for us, as Parliament, to relook into this and say that before students sit for Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination, they should be given a chance to register for identity cards. That is the only way we shall be able to stop this business of people who purport to have moved from other countries--- For example some people claim to have come from a neighbouring country; others pretend to be refugees then they leave the refugee camps for them to be issued with identity cards. It will help the Government to ease the burden of having a huge number of uncollected identity cards in offices. I want to tell the Government that, indeed, we need to implement such measures and ask headteachers of secondary schools to make arrangements for people from the Registrar of Persons offices to issue students with identity cards. We believe that the Jubilee Government is keen on this. We warned them in advance that they should not skew the process of abtaining identity cards in their favour as they did before the last elections. We realized that some regions during the last elections had more voters than the number of registered voters. This is the only way in which we will be able to curb theft elections that we are experiencing. It is a perennial problem. For us to be able to have a country with people who are responsible, especially---"
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