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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, particularly in the area that I come from â Turkana - there are adults who are 30 to 60 years old who have no identification cards. This is a big shame for my colleagues in the Government, both in Treasury and in the Ministry of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons. I have gone to the Ministry of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons several times indicating that in all the consultative meetings that I have held with communities in my own constituency, they have indicated that they need identification cards. Their first priority has always been identification cards and I guess this should not be something we should be seeing when we are rolling out a new constitutional dispensation. If it is their right, let it be provided. There is no reason why in Turkana County, which has a population of about 900,000 people, out of 500,000 adults who are entitled to have identification cards, only 200,000 have it. There is no particular reason for the last 46 years. That is the reason why I support this Motion. Let us decentralize that process. We have realized why we have been talking about the decentralization of Government Ministries and functions. It is basically because---"
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