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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, centralization encourages corruption. I know, for a fact, that many young people who queue to apply for identity cards in the villages today part with money. They give out money in order to acquire these cards. They actually buy them. It is not a Government policy. Perhaps the Minister would deny it, but it is a fact that is happening in our village. People buy these cards. They queue to buy these cards. The card has become so central in our lives that nothing can move in this country without the national identity card. You cannot be recruited. You cannot open a bank account. You cannot get jobs. It is synonymous with the State. Why should the Government find it fit to continue to produce thousands of these cards kilometres away from where the actual residents are? It is important that the issuance of cards is decentralized. As we speak now, the Department of Registration of Persons has officers in every district. All they do is to register. But it is one issue to register Kenyans and another to produce those cards for Kenyans to receive them."
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