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    "id": 791945,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mboko",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mishi Juma Khamisi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to speak on this Motion. From the outset, I congratulate Mheshimiwa Martha Wangari for this noble Motion. Civil registration is the system by which a government records officially vital events of its citizens and residents in a proper registry. A birth certificate is one of the mandatory documents for Kenyans. Right now, you cannot acquire a passport or identification card if you do not have a birth certificate. There are other official documents which you cannot acquire without having a birth certificate. We have so many challenges in accessing the centres so as to acquire this document. In arid and semi-arid areas - and especially now when we have heavy rains - you can imagine the long distances people have to travel to reach the centres where they can acquire this birth certificate. The personnel in those centres are very few. There is few equipment and stationery. The applicants can apply for this birth certificate and stay for a month without getting a response. We have been doing this at the sectoral level but we can also effect this at the health level. If a woman gives birth in a hospital - and maybe we can look at the Level 4 and Level 5 hospitals - she can start the process just at the hospital so that it can be effected even before she leaves that hospital. In our country, there are women who still give birth at home through the care of traditional birth attendants. They are not aware that they need to get a notification from the chief’s office or the sub-chief’s office. We also need to come up with an awareness or outreach programme so that our women can be educated and sensitised. This is so that any time they give birth at home, they can go to the chief’s office or sub-chief’s office to get a notification and the processes can be effected. As an MP, one of my roles is on security. Birth certificate registration is also part of the security measures. As MPs, we can request to have a little additional allocation in the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) so that we can set up offices in our constituencies, get a few personnel and volunteers so that those processes can be effective to our people. Because of the small capacity of those centres, there is a window of corruption. Each and every time people come to our offices, they tell you that you need to give them Kshs2,000 because he or she wants to get a birth certificate for their daughter or son. If you ask them why 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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