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    "id": 57322,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/57322/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
        "slug": "margaret-kamar"
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. In a very brief way, I wish to say that this is a timely Motion. This is the document that we need as soon as possible. I also thank the hon. Member for bringing this Motion at this time because the budgeting process is on. When we talk about six months, we are talking about this issue being prioritized in the Budget. If we do not prioritize this item--- We do not want to debate a Budget that does not have this item. We have had problems on the ground. We have people who are carrying waiting cards which show that they have applied for identity cards. They have been with these waiting cards for the last one or two years. It is a shame that we are unable to issue people with identity cards on time. This means that people have not been able to open accounts in banks and apply for any other document because this is a very basic document. In our Ministry, Kazi kwa Vijana (KKV) is done differently. The KKV is not paid weekly. We require that our youths open accounts. When we talk about the cleaning of Nairobi River and the new project of cleaning of Sosiani River, we employ people on a monthly basis and our youth who do not have identity cards have suffered a lot because we demand that they open bank accounts through which they will be paid. We have discovered that many youths do not have identity cards. There are a number who have waiting cards which show that they have applied for identity cards but there are many more who even gave up on applying. This is because the minute they know they will not get the identity card but a card that only indicates that they have applied for an identity card, they do not apply. It is for that reason that a number of them have been disadvantaged. Even now we are struggling to sort out the street children who require identity cards so that they can be employed in the same project. To us, the project must take care of the youths across the board including street children."
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