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    "id": 790747,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/790747/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Buyu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1950,
        "legal_name": "Rozaah Akinyi Buyu",
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    "content": "When Hon. Martha speaks to this Motion, she is actually speaking to every part of this country. Most of Kenya is rural and has challenges with its infrastructure. As a result, travel or transport costs are high. We know from documented records that more than 50 per cent of people in this country live below the poverty line. In other words, most of those people cannot afford to put a meal on their tables, and we expect them to spend money to travel far and wide in search of birth certificates. It is mandatory for every school-going child to have a birth certificate. Most of the challenges of poor or economically challenged families is money. The charges that they have to pay for the birth certificates are exorbitant and they are not able to afford it if they cannot even afford to eat. I want to talk to the spirit of devolution. Devolution is supposed to bring services closer to the people yet our people have to travel far and wide to look for certificates that are mandatory to their lives. Other than just taking this sentence to the constituency level, I support and request that the Government must devolve those centres right down to the ward level so that most of our people can access or have easy access to those centres. That is the only time devolution will become a reality. Otherwise, if people still have to travel far and wide and spend a lot of money for a certificate that is now mandatory to their lives, it does not matter how much money we have spent on devolution, it will remain a myth to most of us. With those few remarks, I support and congratulate Hon. Martha for coming up with a Motion that affects each and every family in this country."
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