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    "id": 593903,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/593903/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The Constitution speaks to the issue of freedom from discrimination. For some of us who come from communities that border other countries in East Africa, our sons marry from Uganda. According to our culture, once that girl is married in Luhyaland, she becomes a Luhya and, therefore, a Kenyan. We would like this Committee to go and establish whether it is a policy that the wives of our sons who come from Luhya families across the border should be denied an opportunity to be given an ID card. Secondly, many of our people in Trans Nzoia County are squatters. When a boy applies for an ID, he is told to produce his father’s ID, which he does. After that, he is asked to bring the title deed of the father. We would like this Committee to come clean on whether the production of a title deed is a requirement for somebody to be registered as a citizen of this country. Finally, this Committee must come up with full data of how registration is on going in the whole country because some of us feel that certain communities are being disfranchised deliberately so that they do not participate in the 2017 General Election. We would like to see the spread."
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