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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Wanjira",
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        "legal_name": "Jane Agnes Wanjira Machira",
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    "content": "clerical officers cannot even be able to handle the backlog of over 300,000 constituents and others that are more in Naivasha. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the pain people have suffered... If I illustrate using my constituency, if you have someone living in Elementaita Ward, which could be the farthest from Naivasha or Kongasis Ward, you spend around Kshs2,000 to reach Naivasha. When you go to Naivasha, you do not go home with that birth certificate. It is rounds, rounds and rounds. The Ministry of Education, Science and Telchnology had given a deadline that was not tenable. It was reviewed to 31st March 2018, and it was not tenable. As it stands, I think it has been extended to, I do not know when. It is because it is a nightmare; it is not possible. This department is able to make some money. I do not know what it does with that money. One pays for something, it is Kshs600 or so to get a birth certificate. But, you will still have issues of having no paper to print birth certificates, every day. Members in this House will actually relate with that situation. Everywhere there is a crisis, corruption thrives. Some counties like Wajir, only have one civil registration centre, yet it has six constituencies. The distance to be covered to get these services is almost impossible. You spend Kshs 2000 and you are not even sure you will get the birth certificate. You are then forced to go for it another day. It is becoming a nightmare. The Budget and Appropriations Committee in this House needs to relook at this department even in terms of allocation of money, so that there is enough money to get a registrar and at least two clerks in every constituency. That should not be too much to ask. You should not suffer to get your child a birth certificate. If you are not registered in this new system, you will have a problem. The teachers and principals had been given a deadline, which was impossible. Even the small amount of money you have to pay for your school feeding programme, you will spend it on the road trying to get this elusive birth certificate. This Motion is as straightforward as it comes. Every constituency has the right to have a registrar. I know most of the Members in this House have constructed CDF offices where they can house them. I had offered in my own constituency office to host the registrar who would be sent to my constituency because even if you try to ignore this problem, our constituents will come to your office. Some of us have offered to give them somewhere to sit, but the problem is the manpower. The other issue that has thrived is corruption. When you have to beg for a service to be done, it means that you talk to someone who knows someone. That is why you have heard Members complaining in this House and outside in other fora. There will be corruption with those clerks because they will tell you, “I have a backlog of 3000, can I get yours first?” That is how corruption thrives in this country. Let this department get enough funding to be able to get at least a registrar and two clerks in every constituency. That way, it will not be nightmare and we shall not punish our children just because we are running an inefficient system that is becoming problematic."
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