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    "id": 783828,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will just give a summary because the Senator has this response. The request for Statement was on the registration of births and deaths in Kenya. The Member wanted to know the process of acquiring birth certificates in Kenya and why the Nandi Hills and Kapsabet Registries are inefficient and corrupt, what the Government is doing to simplify the process to comply with the timelines especially because of the new policy by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to have all children in schools get the unique personal identification or identifier and the reforms that the Government will undertake to make the process faster and simpler. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Nandi Hills and Kapsabet Registries serve the six sub counties of Nandi County. The registries have been coping with customer volumes adequately before the introduction of the National Education Management Information System (NEMIS). The implementation of NEMIS has created an unprecedented high traffic of applicants not only in Nandi County but the whole country. The Department of Civil Registration Services is addressing the challenge of high number of applicants. There are no reports of corruption noted in the Nandi Hills and Kapsabet Registries. That is to answer the first question. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the second question, the Government is taking the following measures to make the process of acquiring birth certificates simple and efficient to enable parents comply with the new policy by the Ministry: (1) The Ministry is engaging more staff on a temporary basis. This will be achieved through engaging casuals and secondment of staff from National Registration Bureau and the use of interns. (2) Increase in the supply of birth certificates booklets and other registration materials to all registries so that there is no supply problem . (3) Encouraging applications through Huduma Centres so as to decongest registries. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Government is taking the following measures to make the process of acquiring birth certificates faster and simple; (1) Fully automating the birth registration process. (2) Storing all registration information in a central data base electronically. (3) Having staff wear identification badges compulsorily to eradicate corruption because there are people who masquerade as members of staff at the registration bureaus. (4) Sensitizing the public on the need and importance of registering births immediately they occur. (5) Increasing human resource capacity of the Civil Registration Services Department and, finally; (6) Establishing civil registries in all the sub-counties in the country so as to take services closer to the people. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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