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    "id": 624859,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/624859/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "Article 38(3) of the Constitution is very clear that every Kenyan has a right, without unreasonable restriction, to be a registered voter. That means without an identity card, you cannot get a voter’s card. At the moment, Kenyans are registering as voters. We have a very high rate of voter apathy. Most of the youth do not have identity cards. There are those who have waited for years. Others wait for six months. When they go to the registration centres to pick up their identity cards, they do not find them. They are told the cards are still in Nairobi. It takes years for identity cards to leave Nairobi for their respective counties. That is why we are requesting this House, since it has the legislative authority – and given that the Constitution of Kenya 2010 embraces devolution – that we must devolve registration of identity cards from the national level to the county level."
}