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    "id": 790712,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Milemba",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank Hon. Martha Wangari for this because it is extremely crucial. It touches every home and every family. It affects schooling. It affects the agricultural sector in the country because currently parents wake up in the morning to look for birth certificates and go back home and still go back the following day. Originally, birth certificates were reserved for the elite in Kenya. Not everybody had a birth certificate. But a birth certificate has become the main tool to facilitate employment opportunities and even entry into schools. Therefore, it has dawned on the Kenyan population, and particularly the people of Emuhaya, that everybody must have a birth certificate. In my opinion, it is the responsibility of the Government and it is actually the Government requiring a birth certificate for every person born. Therefore, it should be the responsibility of the Government not only to make sure that birth certificates are provided very easily but also they are provided free. So the charge of Kshs150 to Kshs300 which is being charged for a birth certificate should be removed. Number two, we should have the registrars located in every place where they can be easily accessible to the people. I propose further that let the registration of people be pushed to the chiefs because they know the people and children born within their areas and they can affirm that this is a child who was born here. Alternatively, moving further, we should bring in technology so that birth certificates can be accessed in an easy way just like we do with logbooks and every other thing that is found on e-citizen platform, so that from your own home or a cyber café you can feed in data and get the birth certificate which will enable you to access all these opportunities. In Emuhaya, and even Luanda where you come from, people are always on the road going to Mbale to get birth certificates. What are these birth certificates? This House must now help the people of Kenya and the poor citizens to get birth certificates without any further hindrances like it is today. I beg to support, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Thank you."
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