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    "id": 791956,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/791956/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Yussuf Adan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13420,
        "legal_name": "Adan Haji Yussuf",
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    "content": "Recently, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology made it mandatory for pupils in all primary schools to produce birth certificates before they are registered to sit for the national examination. There was a serious crisis in some constituencies, like Mandera West. This is because there is no civil registration centre there. The one that is there is in Mandera Town, which is 300 kilometres from Mandera West Constituency. That is a rough road. Some of the pastoralists in that area live very far from where the school is. They leave their children in boarding schools and go away with their livestock to search for pasture and water. By the time the information reaches them – that their sons or daughters are supposed to have birth certificates to be registered to sit for the national examination – so much time would have lapsed. The person travels all the way from that pastoralist area to the school and gets the right information. From there to where those documents are issued, it is 300 kilometres away. It is another nightmare. This created a cartel of people who collect names and photocopies of identification cards and travel with them to Mandera, 300 kilometres from Ndakaba where the sub-county headquarters are located. It costs Kshs3,500 per child to get a birth certificate and produce it in school. As Hon. Adagala has just said, if you have 10 children in your household and you have to spend Kshs3,500 for each of them in order to get that document, then the whole thing becomes a project that would require donor funding."
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