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    "id": 60635,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/60635/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajwang",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 164,
        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is regrettable. We had a contract with the company that has been supplying us with materials and who have been producing the identity cards for this country since 1995. That contract was for ten years, which ended in 2005. From 2005, we have been kind of extending this contract against our wish, because the intention was that we move to the third generation identity card which would have been much more secure. It would have had a chip which could be usable for many other uses including voting, NHIF, NSSF, KRA and all those things that an identity card would do. But the process of the third generation identity cards contract has been slowed down by court cases, appeals to the Public Procurement Oversight Authority (PPOA) and we have been frustrated several times. So, we have been extending this contract against our wish since 2005 to date. This time round, the Cabinet decided that we cannot extend it any more. We must decide to move to the third generation. Consequently, in the last Cabinet meeting, I was directed that we proceed with the third generation identity card and stop this contract. Stopping the contract means that we therefore do not have materials and the production facility. So, for the time being, Kenyan people will bear with us. We cannot be able to produce the identity cards. I want you to bear with us for at least three months as we process the third generation contract."
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