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    "id": 624952,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Chae",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Alice Nyanchoka Chae",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to support the Motion by making the following points. I feel that if we decentralise registration of national IDs, we will decongest the National Registration Bureau. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this will restore confidence to people especially women who after being married take long to change their names. Sometimes even those who got married long ago have never got IDs with changed names. This is the case and yet this is a right that is supposed to be accessed by everybody. These women need to join chamas and access banking facilities in their communities but there is no way they can do it without these vital documents. Secondly, decentralisation will ensure that one has security. Without an ID, the police do consider you as a Kenyan and they can even arrest you. With an ID you are assured of your security as a Kenyan and you can freely move east or west 24/7. Decentralisation of this service will also ease the process of registration. When this service is near people, the chiefs can easily identify the IDs that have not been collected from the district headquarters and deliver them to people in their homes. When IDs are processed in Nairobi, sometimes they are posted to wrong district headquarters, and in my view, that is why we have many uncollected IDs. Transparency and accountability will also be enhanced because you know who Kenyans are. Decentralisation will enhance the devolution function which all of us want. I support the Motion. I believe that the faster it is passed, the better. We want everybody to access vital services in our country so that students who are joining universities are not told they cannot access Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) loans because of lack of IDs. If IDs registration centres were in counties, immediately after Form Four, when they are waiting to join universities, they would easily get their IDs. I support the decentralisation of the registration of national IDs to counties. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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