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    "id": 625050,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/625050/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dawood",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2572,
        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. My card is not working and that is why I am at the Leader of the Majority Party’s seat. I support this Motion regarding IDs. I want the perception out there and among some of my fellow Members of Parliament that 90 per cent of registration officers are from Central Kenya to be erased. It is not true. We will not have integration or cohesion in this country if we still stick to ethnic backgrounds. We have a problem in most of our counties. I agree with Hon. Olago that we should decentralise and not devolve. We do not want to put more burden on county governments and governors because they are already overburdened and cannot handle many of the functions they are given. Adding them more functions will be creating a Pandora’s box. We have a problem with issuance of IDs especially in my constituency and the entire Meru County because we border Isiolo County. People have lived there for long. A fourth generation of people and their children who are born there are being asked to go all the way to the Northen Frontier counties to the chiefs to be given IDs which is not fair at all. Sometimes IDs are not given to members of the Asian community. They are asked to bring their grandfathers’ and great grandfathers’ IDs. We need to integrate and know our people and those who are not our people. People have been born there as the third generation. We should have a criterion where you are not told to bring your great grandfathers’ birth certificate. We need these services right to the bottom. Two months ago, I was in my constituency donating sports equipment and we were doing ID registration. We had a problem since some of the chiefs were not available to sign forms. Some of them would just ignore. Even if we decentralise this process, chiefs need to be there. Deputy County Commissioners (DCCs) and Assistant County Commissioners (ACCs) ought to take control without which we will not achieve anything. We need to issue IDS early enough especially to students before they leave Form Four. It is easier to get a passport than to get an ID. The requirement for getting a passport is an ID. This is a wrong requirement. If you are 30 years old and you do not have an ID, it means that if you get an opportunity to travel outside this country, you cannot travel because you will not get a passport. That requirement is not good and should be removed. 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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