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    "content": "I expected that the time when I brought the Motion and this House approved it--- This is when we said that the identity cards and the voters’ cards should be one document and the Minister agreed and supported that Motion. However, three years down the line, he has not implemented it. Where is mapambano, Mr. Minister? Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Mr. Kilonzo brought a Motion the other day on the particulars taken for purposes of getting a sim card for a telephone line---. My good professor who was my teacher and is seated here has become a professor of technology. He has said that we only need one card, that is the birth certificate. Why should I go to be registered again once I have attained the age of 18 if the Minister had taken my particulars at birth? It is a matter of counting time and keeping records. When you are registering as a voter in the constituency, all those particulars are taken, you get that document, it is laminated and you walk away with it. The ECK people remain with copies, which you can inspect after a while. Why can the hon. Minister not do the same? He has the capacity; he has gone public on mapambano and is forthright when his party is being threatened. Why does he not act when the lives of Kenyans are being threatened with failure to vote, because if they do not have identity cards, they cannot be issued with voters cards? Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we expect more from this Minister in particular. We expect more from all of them, but the reputation of his performance went ahead of him and we expected that once he arrived there, he would finish these things in the first year. The hon. Member quotes Section 174 (h) in the Motion. If you look at the entire Chapter 11, Part 1 on Objects of devolution--- Section 174 (f) says:“To promote social and economic development and the provision of proximate, easily accessible services throughout Kenya.” In the principles of devolved Governments, Article 175 (b) says: “County Governments shall have reliable sources of revenue to enable them to govern and deliver services effectively.” In fact, Mr. Affey has done a favour to the Minister by saying: “Take it from the national Government to the county.” However, this Constitution allows the counties to devolve their services even further to the village level. So, if this is done at the county level; knowing sometimes that when the identity cards come to Nairobi, they disappear and once they are sent back to the district headquarters, sometimes they lie idle and they are taken to the wrong places, this will save the Minister that trouble. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we need to appreciate the role of the chiefs. In my place, as we speak now, I have about 50,000 people that the chiefs have already registered; the Assistant Chief of Ille, the chiefs of Napililim and Kamatosa and many"
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