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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. From the outset, I support this Motion fully in as far as decentralisation of these services, which are supposed to be offered by the Government to the constituency level, is concerned. The spirit of devolution is here with us and we should embrace it fully in all spheres. This one is no exception. In the same spirit, we need to have services taken as nearest as possible to the people, especially the provision of essential documents. It is vital and critical that when one wants to get a birth certificate, it does not take time. It should not also cost much. Those offering the service must be efficient enough to issue the certificates. We also need death certificates in the same breath as birth certificates. Our school leavers and other people have to travel very far away to the county centres and spend a lot of money and time to get those particular documents. With regard to land registration centres, there are people especially in my county of Meru, who travel for over 100 kilometres to Meru for their title deeds whereas we have offices which can be used to offer those services in every sub-county. I keep wondering why the Government spends a lot of money to employ so many people, especially in the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), to take voter registration officers to the villages, market centres and bus stages. They camp in each and every roundabout so that they can register voters. Why do we not use the same energy, breath and resources to take those vital documents to the people who require them? The other day, the Minister for Education, Science and Technology said that for every child to be registered in a school, one should have a birth certificate. We know very well that in Kenya, there are so many children who are born at home and many parents are ignorant; they do not know about that certificate. The queues for collection of those birth certificates in this country show that we are very far away from giving the necessary services to our people due to not opening enough registration centres for these vital documents. There are parents who wonder when they will get those certificates. You will find that in a whole sub-county or county, there are five, 10 or even fewer registration officers. When you have a queue of almost 1,000 people waiting for that document you do not do much; you do very 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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