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    "id": 700438,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bowen",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Kangongo Bowen",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this important Motion, and thank Hon. Mwinyi for bringing it. The P3 Form has been a big issue. It has been a big problem to many Kenyans. Even where there are obvious issues like someone being assaulted, a child or woman being raped; with enough witnesses and evidence; at the police station, police officers will tell you they cannot proceed until you fill the P3 Form. Sometimes, the victims of that nature are unconscious. Someone may be in hospital and cannot even recall what happened, but they still need to fill a P3 Form. This is a timely Motion. We need to pass it so that we have many Kenyans accessing justice in this country. Given Article 48 of the Constitution on access to justice, we should make this very important form free so that any one, at any given point, gets it. It should not matter where one is. If I am travelling from Mombasa and I have an incident somewhere on the way, I should be able to go to any police station, fill my P3 Form and get assisted. Like someone has said, apart from the P3 forms, there are so many other things that we need to put in place, like the issue of identity cards and pressing machines for identity cards. People are still travelling far; some from even Turkana and Mombasa. All those identity cards are done here in Nairobi. It would be proper that the line Ministry decentralises the issuance of identity cards so that many Kenyans can access them. This will be good. You can imagine a case where an identity card is taken back home and you find that the names in the identity card are of a woman, but the image is a man. It takes almost three or four months to make that correction. That is because you have to fill those documents again and they have to be sent all the way to Nairobi for the corrections to be made. There is need for this country to have an integrated identity card which can be used as a voter’s card, identity card and driving licence. We should have everything integrated in one system. If you check most of the wallets of these Members of Parliament here and outside there, you will find that they have an identity card, a voter’s card, a National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) card, a National Social Security Fund (NSSF) card and even the biometric cards for this House. As you walk around, you have a big wallet and someone thinks you have a lot of money. But it is full of cards like the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) cards and many others. So, there is need to have an integrated system where you have one card serving all those functions. The President admitted that---"
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