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    "id": 625128,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mukwe",
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        "legal_name": "James Lusweti Mukwe",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I recently heard on radio the Head of State giving a directive that those newly married women must be given IDs without being sent back to their fathers to get letters to access IDs. Chiefs have not adhered to that directive because these people are still being told to go back to their parents to get letters to allow them to get IDs. This is becoming difficult for the people. Students are not even accessing loans from HELB. IDs are very important. As a Member earlier mentioned, after the 2013 elections, we received over 4,000 IDs in April. We questioned why such a thing was happening in certain constituencies. Some of my constituents who crossed to Uganda during the tribal clashes in 1982 and 1997 have come back, but it has been very difficult for them to get IDs because they are told they are not Kenyans. They are told that they are Ugandans yet they only ran away because of tribal clashes. Up to now, they are not resettled and some were evicted from their land. People who were evicted from their land in the 2007/2008 Post-Election Violence (PEV) have already been resettled yet these ones are still loitering in towns and shopping centres without anywhere to settle. Members have talked about materials like printing papers and application forms. This even forced me to travel from my constituency during the recess to come to Nairobi to get application forms. By extension, we are also asked to give money to buy printing papers. So, we are asking why the Jubilee Government cannot fund the process."
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