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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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    "content": "marriage is being done, people cannot access the headquarters. More often, if the marriage is being done in a church, the notice is announced in the church. If it is civil marriage and it is put on a notice board far away from the people, the people will not get the information. It is much easier at the constituency level because somebody can read and inform the other people of the marriage and they can raise any issue. We should make it accessible so that people can even raise objections, if there are any. I want to support this important Motion. The issuance of national identity cards should also be devolved to the constituency level. As much as we talk about devolving those services to the sub-county level, we should also look at it in terms of how soon the documents can be processed. The processing of the certificates should also be hastened to make it much quicker. Similarly, in terms of the national identity cards, we should hasten the process. Yesterday, there was a group of people who were transporting my constituents to a different constituency so that they could access national identity cards. The acquisition of identity cards has been made difficult by people making allegations that foreigners are getting identity cards from there. Yesterday, the same people were claiming that foreigners have been ferrying people to get identity cards at a different constituency. You make it difficult for people to access the document in their own constituency and then you take them to a different constituency. These are issues that need to be addressed very seriously. The Government must look into some of these issues, so that some people do not commit fraud in terms of disenfranchising people. We should urge the Independent Elections and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) that when it comes to registration, people should register where they took their identity cards. With those few remarks, I support this Motion."
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