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    "id": 642095,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/642095/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kering",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 911,
        "legal_name": "Zipporah Jesang Kurgat Kering",
        "slug": "zipporah-jesang-kurgat-kering"
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    "content": "Registration of voters is a very crucial exercise and we wonder why the people dealing with IDs have delayed issuing them. As much as the registration of IDs is decentralised, we should add equipment at the national level so that their issuance is fast tracked. I support the idea of waiting cards to be used for registration of voters. There are other transactions that Kenyans need to use their IDs for. For example, the mama mboga who want to apply for small loans cannot access them without IDs. I wonder whether the waiting cards can also be used to access these loans. I congratulate the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH), Dr. Aruasa who released IDs that had been lying there for a number of years due to pending bills. The owners of the IDs were made to pay some money and the hospital paid the balance. A good number of IDs were released and our people were able to register as voters. We have old people who want to register as voters but cannot travel from their homes to registration centres. I suggest that we take the registration exercise to the doorsteps of the aged because they cannot travel to get their IDs. The delay in the issuance of IDs is because of personnel who are not working as per their schedule. We need to put in place the amount of time one should wait for an ID after application. It is because of that loophole that the time stipulated is not clear. I propose that the chiefs should be involved in the issuance of IDs. They should be given a critical role to identify the ID applicants in their locations. If we do this, people will get their IDs on time. Women are affected by this exercise because of their responsibilities. When they go to register for IDs they are told to go back and they may not have that opportunity. I am proposing that the issuance of IDs should be done in such a way that during women meetings the people issuing IDs---"
}