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    "id": 624906,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/624906/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ekomwa",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2940,
        "legal_name": "James Lomenen Ekomwa",
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    "content": "have been denied some services like ID cards, voters’ cards, hospitals, water and others. So, how do you expect us to compete with people who have access to IDs, National Social Security Fund (NSSF), National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) and other things? This is deliberate marginalization. Why should you deny people ID, and yet a voter’s card is attached to it? I think this Motion is key because I expect Kenyans to get access to IDs as well as voters’ cards. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in this era, Kenyans, including politicians who are seated here know that a voter’s card is more important than an ID. Voters’ cards are more important because numbers are needed during elections. There is what we call “tyranny of numbers”. “Tyranny of numbers” is not tyranny of IDs but tyranny of voters’ cards. The purpose of devolution is not to take money to the county or the governor or to devolve corruption; devolution is about easing delivery of services to the ordinary wananchi . Devolution is also about making it easy for an ordinary person in Kibish, Turkana or Lokichar to obtain an ID, as easily as a person in Nairobi. That is how I understand devolution. However, we gauge devolution as only taking money, corruption and everything else to the county and then leaving essential services in Nairobi. We have to devolve ID registration to the villages. What is identification? Who is supposed to identify a person? Should you be identified in Nairobi? Should you be identified by the NSSF? People who are supposed to carry out identification cards are those who are right in the village. These are the elders in the village. All these machines must go to the village. They must go to the village; to the sub-locations; to Kibish and ensure that anybody who wants an ID today can get one. To those who are preparing this Bill, obtaining a voter’s card should not be dependent on having an ID. You should not deny someone the right to vote just because you delayed giving him or her an ID in Nairobi. They should be given voter’s cards. If anyone wants to vote he must be given a voter’s card."
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