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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "time. The women Members of Parliament had wanted us to put aside a day just to discuss Winnie Mandela. Coming back to the Motion at hand, having worked at the Cradle for many years, one of the challenges that we faced, especially for undocumented children is the issue of birth registration. Many of us do not understand how when you do not have birth registration it affects every other possibility for you as a person. You find that most people will not access schools. This is a problem that we faced especially with Nyumbani Children Center that hosts a lot of children suffering from HIV /AIDS and many who are abandoned by their parents. Because of the way we have put up our registration systems, most of them did not access registration documents. Without that birth registration document, one cannot access schools or any other social services that this country grants. That aside, for people who come from border constituencies such as mine - I border Uganda and Tanzania - the Government has made it very difficult to get either birth registration or other forms of identification for our constituents. One of the things that we must do is not only devolve this system but also to make it easier. I thank one Hon. Member who was speaking about giving these services to the chiefs. The chiefs know people by name in their own villages. They know who the-son-of-who is, who has given birth to a child with two or four fingers and so on. They know of all those specific details within the village. So, if you can devolve this activity to that level, even as a country, it would help us a great deal. In fact, instead of putting a lot of money on census, we could give the chiefs the authority to register births and deaths. That way, we would not use a lot of money during census. This is because, at any given time, the chief should be able to tell who has been born and who has died in the village. Sometimes we need to find very noble and easy ways of doing things instead of making our lives a lot harder. We could use the money that goes into conducting census on other more profitable ventures. With those few remarks let me congratulate my sister Martha and support this Motion. Thank you."
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