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    "id": 583224,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as the Chairman of this Committee responds, we should know why the issue of identity cards keeps on coming up every now and then. It is not the ideas per se which cause problems but discrimination in the issuance of identity cards where some areas feel that they have not been issued with identity cards in the same spirit as in other areas. Other areas are given identity cards with speed and in bigger numbers more than in other areas for political purposes. As we go into elections, this issue will keep on coming up. I would like to give the Chairman some ideas because this issue arose in Sierra Leone and I happened to participate in the elections as part of the United Nations (UN) Monitoring Team. Within one week, we registered 97 per cent of the people for purposes of voting through a census system. Could the Chairman consider advising the Government to use the census system where you move from house to house to make sure that every person has an identity card for purposes of elections so that we stop coming here to address the issue in piecemeal each time elections come nearer?"
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