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    "id": 791957,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/791957/?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",
        "slug": "adan-haji-yussuf-2"
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    "content": "Having the document is not a privilege but a right. Every Kenyan, whether he is born in a pastoral homestead or in hospital, must be issued with the document. The bureaucratic processes or situations where registration officers are not available cause people a lot of problems. I went to the ministry headquarters recently in order to try and see how this issue could be solved. I was told that there was even an embargo on employment of civil registration officers by the National Treasury. Therefore, they could do nothing about it. They told me that Mandera County should have only one civil registration officer. We are in the process of appropriating funds. Can we make sure that adequate funds are voted so that civil registration centres can be established in every constituency? It is more difficult to get a birth certificate today than 50 years ago, when I got mine. When I applied for it, I was a student at Wajir Secondary School. I filled a form and posted it. After three weeks, I got my birth certificate via post office while I was seated there. I 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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