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    "id": 625123,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mbui",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "As a Member of Parliament who has accepted to defend the Constitution, I support that IDs come to our people in the nearest and easiest possible way. When IDs are issued in the city and bearing in mind the size of this country, there are a lot of delays in getting them. It is important that this function is decentralised and IDs are issued at the regional level, so that people can get IDs in the fastest way possible. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, since the advent of multipartyism, every election in Kenya has been contested. Every time after elections, people say they were rigged out and lost because of certain reasons. Immediately after the last general elections, as a Member of the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD), hundreds of IDs were released in my constituency. People got their IDs immediately after the elections meaning they did not vote yet they had already applied for them. The IDs were ready, but were held in the city. Decentralising this function will mean that IDs will be manufactured within our counties. Delays and IDs being kept until after elections will be a thing of the past and people will benefit. I believe that was a kind of rigging and we hope it does not happen again. I strongly support that we decentralise the issuance of IDs."
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