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    "id": 624912,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/624912/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Bishop) R. Mutua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mutemi Mutua",
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    "content": "Secondly, when we deny people easy access to IDs, we are actually enhancing discrimination as far as accessing services and employment and doing business is concerned. We are making it impossible for people who have no IDs to do all these things. We are denying Kenyans their rights and marginalising them quietly. This has happened in the years that have passed. People cannot even go for recruitment because they do not have IDs, whereas we could easily give them IDs when they turn 18. We can even register them right in schools. What is wrong with that? By taking the registration of IDs to the counties, they can have a programme of ensuring that all the students who reach 18 in their schools are able to easily access their IDs. It is also important to realise that bureaucracy exists. People have their fingerprints taken within a particular area, they are transported to Nairobi and then they are taken back to the chief, to the assistant chief and then to the village. This bureaucracy is causing unnecessary delays. We do not want this. We want people to access their identity cards immediately and instantly so that they can continue building this country. It is also very important to realise that denying people their IDs is actually disempowering them. We are making them less Kenyans and yet they are of age. They are supposed to participate in nation-building in very many ways but they cannot simply because they do not have an ID. Why do we make it very hard for people to access IDs in this country? This is unless you have a hidden agenda to manipulate people in Kenya so that some are empowered earlier while others have to keep waiting. We cannot wait anymore. Let this service be devolved as soon as next week so that our people can be registered and vote in the coming election."
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