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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mboni",
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        "legal_name": "David Mwalika Mboni",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I thank Hon. Martha Wangari for bringing up this Motion. As we stand now, this is an issue which is actually long overdue. Currently, to get these certificates has become very expensive because people have to travel long distances so that they can get them. Secondly, because of the shortages of P1 forms, corruption has come in. To get that form, our people have to bribe the people who have them. So, it is very important to bring these centres where people are. The motto of this country and the Government is to bring service near to them. I will propose that we should not establish only one centre. Some constituencies are very big. We may have to propose that we establish more than one centre in each constituency so that we can cater for everybody. Also these centres should be manned by trained people and we also provide them with computing equipment and of course the materials. I also propose that the children should also be issued with birth certificates in the hospitals. Before they leave the hospital after being born, they should be given the certificates. I used to work with the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) and one big challenge in civil registration is budget allocation. I had an opportunity to manage a World Bank funded project and I actually was funding them. I realised that they did not even have computing people. When we talk about these centres and efficient systems, then we need to give them enough finances so that they can issue these certificates. In this country, we are in the process of creating what we call a comprehensive and integrated population register. That is where civil registration comes in. We need to know when somebody was born and when he leaves this country. We need to know all the activities this person has done. One of the instruments which can help us is civil registration in terms of registering people and getting information from the person that you will see this is so and so. We can trace that person to the time he leaves this country. It is also going to help us in terms of population, especially on what we call head count. Population and housing census creates more information apart from counting. Though the head count, we will know how many people have been born and how many people have left. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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