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    "id": 539765,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/539765/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F. K. Wanyonyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2065,
        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
        "slug": "ferdinard-kevin-wanyonyi"
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    "content": "People still do things in the old ways. Therefore, the passage of this progressive Bill will help us to change the way we do things. Recently, we were conducting the exercise of identity card (ID) registration in my area. The chief of the area, a public servant who is supposed to be exercising administrative authority, came and found the registrars and the clerks who were about to start registering the people who had lined up. Because he had not been told and informed, he called off the exercise notwithstanding the fact that some people had walked long distances. In this country, getting IDs is a big problem to our people, particularly the youth. There are some people who are over 30 years old who have not got IDs. Just because of that authority, the chief, even notwithstanding the fact that this was a different exercise which was happening in his area, said that because he had not been informed, the exercise could not take place. That is what we are talking about. This is a colonial way of doing things. They still have got the big boss syndrome as hon. Mwaura has said. He is the boss, he has to do that and you have to respect that. With that kind of assertion to show that he has the authority and is the last person on the line, people dispersed. We are talking about over 200 innocent Kenyans who were waiting to register for IDs."
}