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    "id": 624872,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/624872/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bowen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2256,
        "legal_name": "David Kangongo Bowen",
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    "content": "Pursuing an identity card in Nairobi takes so long and it comes at a cost. The other day, the Ministry reported that there were about 100,000 un-collected identity cards at the Registrar of Persons Department. It becomes a challenge for people from remote areas to travel all the way to Nairobi, with accommodation cost involved and the time taken to queue to collect their identity cards in Nairobi. That is why we have so many ID cards lying at the Ministry. We have seen ID cards coming with pictures that are different from the ones that applied. Making corrections takes another six months to one year. If the service of issuing identity cards is decentralized at the local level, it becomes easier to make those corrections because you can just go there, look at the ID card and if the picture is not yours, return it to be amended. If you check, for instance, the reason we have so many aliens in the country with Kenyan ID cards, is because of corruption. People come from the villages all the way to Nairobi because they are worried of the queue, and it takes too long to get an ID card. You have to bribe your way if you want to get your ID card very easily. You give out some money so that you can get your ID card very fast. In that process, we perpetrate corruption. In the same manner, we have seen so many aliens coming to Nairobi to acquire ID cards because there is no validation and verification process through which you can tell whether the applicants are actually the right people to get ID cards. If we decentralize issuance of ID cards to the county level, it will become easier for the local administrators like village elders and chiefs to validate and verify whether the applicants are the right people to get ID cards."
}