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    "id": 57375,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Lagat",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Elijah Kiptarbei Lagat",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also make my contribution. First, I want to thank hon. Affey for bringing this Motion. When I was a student, it took me two days to get an ID. That was way back in 1985. At that time what was required was a letter from the headmaster and another from the Chief. Currently, the procedure is too long. At that time, IDs were issued at the district level. Currently, forms have to be filled and sent to Nairobi. One is made to wait for six months or one year before getting an ID. We need to be serious when talking about this decentralization. Initially, the issuance of IDs was decentralized but we later on introduced obstacles which are too complicated for the present day Kenyans. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we need to be serious with the rising population. It seems we are not prepared. Way back, these things were done in an easier way. At the moment when we consider ourselves to be in the computer era, things are done in a hard way. I think we need to be prepared because the population of Kenyans is rising and yet the Government is not prepared to face the challenges. In the new Constitution, Kenyans are allowed to have dual citizenship. A Kenyan who goes outside Kenya will get another passport more readily than the one residing here who will still be struggling to get an ID. That is not fair. We have to be serious and move forward as a country. We need to move in tandem with the global changes. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to support this Motion and say that we need decentralization in order to provide better services to our people."
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