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    "id": 719074,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/719074/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Letimalo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 68,
        "legal_name": "Raphael Lakalei Letimalo",
        "slug": "raphael-letimalo"
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    "content": "Thank you so much Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I also want to thank my colleague, Hon. Njomo, for giving me an opportunity to contribute. I support the Motion. Since this is donated time, I just want to go straight to the point. I really want to commend IEBC officials, the National Registration Bureau (NBS) and other stakeholders for mobilizing people for the ongoing voter registration exercise, particularly for going to the market places and even using voter educators to do civic education. The poor turnout for voter registration is attributed to lack of national IDs. I would like to appeal to the National Registration Bureau (NRB) that for all new applications, they should be able to use all the possible means to process the IDs and send them to their centres countrywide. The NRB officers in the field should be able to liaise with administrators of the national Government and the county governments so that they can issue out the national IDs to enable people to register as voters. Secondly, as it has been said here, those of us who come from Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) experience peculiar situations. People in the ASAL areas are livestock keepers. While Kenya is experiencing drought, those of us from ASAL areas are more affected to the extent that herders are moving with their livestock in search of water and pasture. The majority of those herding livestock are the youth. Those are the same people we are targeting, I appeal to IEBC that they liaise with security personnel to pursue herders in the ASAL areas with a view to ensuring that they register as voters as they move with their livestock."
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