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    "id": 84966,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/84966/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "The biggest challenge we face as leaders from that area is that, every day, we find ourselves going to the Department of Registration trying to assist young Kenyan people who literally should have acquired identification cards. We are interceding on their behalf for the Department of Registration to register them. Therefore, we are victims of our own laws, we are victims of the chaos in Somalia and there is need, therefore, to address the Somali dilemma in Kenya. The Kenyans of Somali origin are living in very difficult circumstances in their own country. Therefore, in registering the youth – the Report is very clear – there are too many bottlenecks for them to find identification cards. This must be sorted out. It must be streamlined and it is the absolute responsibility of the Government to do that. I was surprised when we went out and an official of the Government told me: “You know, it is very difficult to distinguish between a Kenyan Somali and a Somali Somali, and that is why we have a problem giving them identity cards.” That reason is not good enough because they are there, they are in the location, they have chiefs and they are in the centres. If you cannot establish that fact in order to help them, then what is the purpose of having Government officers on the ground being paid salaries for a matter they are supposed to be doing? This is a very serious challenge and I am speaking with a lot of passion because we have a large number of Kenyans who have been denied their right to be registered in Kenya. It is just because we need to see how we can be more efficient in trying to register them."
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