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    "id": 790744,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shinali",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1598,
        "legal_name": "Benard Masaka Shinali",
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    "content": "Pregnancy is not something you can hide, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, because we can see it. Some of us who have families can see. That is not the point. The point is the duration that a woman is pregnant is long enough. The fact that she has to visit hospital several times means we have the details. We should not take children who were born through a tedious exercise to get this document. We want those documents. I request that those documents be issued at the hospitals where the children are born and even at primary schools where headteachers and teachers, who come from the locality, can get the details of the parents and the children and forward the same for issuance of birth certificates. This exercise should have been done gradually. It has now created a backlog and there are cartels that have come up. Right now, the cost of a birth certificate is between Kshs1000 and Kshs2000. The distance one has to travel to get the birth certificates, and the many times that our parents visit those centres to get the birth certificates, are painful. We need to ease the way birth certificates are issued so that our people can live an easy life and access those documents in an easy way rather than having to spend the little they have and the time that they should be working to look for this particular document. As we move on, I request Hon. Martha Wangari to move further and propose amendments so that the suggestions we are currently discussing are put in the necessary legislations so that they become law. As I conclude, I also support..."
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