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    "id": 593898,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kagwe",
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        "legal_name": "Mutahi Kagwe",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the petitioner and Sen. Khaniri for bringing this petition to this House. As a matter of fact, last weekend, I had a meeting in my county with the youth who are basically complaining of the same situation. Their identity cards have delayed. Some of them wanted to participate in the Armed Forces recruitment. However, they could not do so because of the fact that they do not have identity cards. In this time and age, it ought to be possible through information technology to process an identity card in the shortest time possible. It ought to be possible to combine an identity card with other forms of identification such as the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) card and driving licence. These documents ought to be within the same databank .The idea of a databank behind an identity card would solve the problem that Sen. Adan has raised here where there are suspicions that a person who is not a Kenyan could be registered. We must be alive to this; it is a fact that there are people who will try to get Kenyan IDs and yet they are not Kenyans. The type of identity card we should be talking about today should be one that has got other documents behind it. If we have the birth certificate, if you type the name of an individual such as Sen. Murkomen, the data should show where he was born, where he came from, who his father was, who the chief was and other information that can eliminate the problem of suspicion that goes around and denies many Kenyans their birth right of getting a proper identification card. We are appealing to the relevant departments to invest in information technology so that they will be able to fast track any application for an identification card and to have relevant data and information to ensure that only the right people get identity cards on a timely basis."
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