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    "id": 848004,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/848004/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "powers as those donated by officers under the East African Community Customs Management Act 2015 – that is an amendment to Section 32 – generally makes it difficult to believe that these are minor amendments. There are other amendments that require serious discussions. I am not so sure whether we have it right. The Registration of Persons Act Cap 107 makes interesting amendments. I think a colleague has raised the same. For example, there is a provision that you can identify somebody by the physical forms that one can see and touch. I find it very hilarious. How many more will you touch to identify the physical form? It is against some cultures and traditional religions to touch someone who does not belong to you, so I do not know how you will touch. One of the 10 Commandments is explicitly clear - thou shall not covet. Imagining that you can see and touch sounds and looks hilarious and I find it very interesting. I thought some of those provisions should have been subjected to some serious interrogation in view of our culture, religion and general practice. On the same Registration of Persons Act, I completely agree that the time is nigh for us to have an integrated registration system. I have different numbers for my ID, NHIF, (NSSF) and all the universities I have gone to. It becomes a challenge to keep tabs on all the numbers you have been given. You have a different personal identification number (PIN). If you engage in trade, you have a different value added tax (VAT) number. It becomes practically impossible to remember all those numbers. We welcome the amendment. We hope it will come to fruition. Nevertheless, under the same Act, there is the requirement of identifying a place. The amendments being proposed are not necessary because the same have already been covered under the Land Registration Act, Sections 7, 8 and 15. Finally, I have a small comment on the Traffic Act. If we remember the arrangements under leasing and leases, it becomes very punitive to deny somebody an insurance sticker simply because he is not the original owner because I could have a lease of six or so years that should confer benefits to me. That is the principle of insurance. With those few remarks, I beg to support the Bill but we will make amendments at the right time."
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