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"content": "in the village knows my date of birth. The other question is sex and my villagers will know my sex. The other one is district of birth and my people in the village know that. The place of issue, the officer issuing me the ID knows where he is standing. I will be having my signature on the spot. It then goes to ask you the district, division and the sub- location. All that information is available at the locational level. The Government should decentralize this service, not only to the county level, but also introduce mobile issuance of IDs. They would go to a particular location, have a mobile unit and we would all queue for the identity cards. The Provincial Administration and the elders should be involved and we would not be talking about the issuance of identity cards. To get a national identity card in this country is the hardest thing. If you want to get a passport, it is easier. You do not need an ID to get a passport now. If you have a birth certificate, you will get a passport within 24 hours. During campaigns, we have always promised that we will offer the best services as a Government. If you do not have a national identity card today, you are 18 years old and in school, you will not be able to register for examinations. You will not be able to get employment. This is something which the Government has promised us. They tell us âelect us, we will get you employmentâ. The same Government has lost that will to deliver the service to the youth. You cannot open a bank account. Luckily, some banks accept other forms of identification. In terms of inheritance, it becomes difficult. The widows and the widowers are not even recognized in other documents. They are required to produce the national identity cards. We could also be going back to the old dark days. There were days when we used to have the slogan âsiasa mbaya, maisha mbaya. If you were perceived to come from an opposition area, then you would not get an identity card. That was very common in Nyanza and Central provinces, which were perceived to be mostly opposition and other areas. Is it possible that we are going back there? Why would the Government lack the will to issue our people with this simple document, namely, a national identity card? Is it possible that the Minister concerned is sleeping on his job? He does not even bother to come here in person, neither has his Assistant or the technocrats from the Ministry. It is not about cost. The other day, the Minister was talking about the third generation of IDs while we have not got the second generation IDs. About 50 per cent of Kenyans, actually do not have IDs. They have not even got the second generation IDs and now he wants to move to the third generation IDs. The Minister can only be sleeping on the job. It is even interesting for a young married lady to change the details on her original ID to conform to the details on her marriage certificate. This is the hardest thing to do. It is even worse if she is married under the customary law. To change the details on her ID to reflect her husbandsâ name is very hard. They are told that they need a lawyer. The cost of a lawyer is prohibitive. If you are somewhere in the bundus in a very remote place, to get a lawyer to do an affidavit for you is going to cost a lot of money. This Government stills behaves like the previous old Governments. If you come from the Northern parts of Kenya like my good friend, Ekwe Ethuro, or if you come from North Eastern Province like the Mover of the Motion, or if you come from the borders, the perception within the Government is that these people are aliens. An alien is something very bad according to the Government. If that is the case, why do we not give them alien IDs? This is because aliens in this country have alien IDs. So, if they are living within the boundaries and they are suspected, why can we not, first, give them"
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