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    "id": 876917,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I thank the Vice Chairperson of my Committee for being so efficient and bringing this interim Statement this afternoon. Many things are going wrong with regard to this National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS) registration process. First, it has been directed that they will register even children. Children will get Identity Cards (IDs). Given the low levels of confidence in one another in this country, from where we sit, anyone of us cannot resist to think that this, in fact, is a pre-rigging of future elections. This is because there is every possibility that the registration will be flawed in favour of certain regions and communities against others. Secondly, none of us is averse to peace and security in the country. The duty of the Government, under the social contract doctrine, as elucidated in the sages of the law - Rusaw and others - is that you surrender part of your freedom and authority to the state to protect you. We have no difficult with the Government giving us security, but in so doing fundamental rights of every individual must be protected. I have been in this Parliament since 1993 and never seen a far-reaching amendment to the law coming through a miscellaneous amendment Bill in the National Assembly. I have looked at the law on data protection in Germany, United Kingdom (UK) and America and it is thick because of the complexity of the matter. In one phrase in the miscellaneous amendment, a law was passed in the National Assembly to collect Kenyans’ personal bio-data, including DNA, without any safeguard, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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