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    "id": 885080,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/885080/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13179,
        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is an issue that speaks to the hearts of most of us simply because if you need a passport or to register for the school system or an ID, all that depends on whether you have a birth certificate or not. Like Sen. Wetangula has said, everybody was either born in a hospital, where people know; or in a village, where the chief is aware of the birth of that child. Why, therefore, can this birth certificate not be issued immediately after the child is born? Why wait until somebody has to apply for it? Should it not just be a right? The hospital or the chief should issue the birth certificates depending on where a child is born. In Wajir County, where I come from and the whole of the north eastern part of Kenya, people are sometimes not even born in the village. They are born in the bush, because with the pastoral life, we move from one place to another. They are, therefore, born in temporary homesteads because this month they are here, and next week they are in another place; and they keep on moving. Therefore, there has to be a mechanism to ensure that Kenyans who are born in Kenya get the documents they need. Mr. Speaker, Sir, some parents have the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) cards, but because their children do not have birth certificates, they cannot access NHIF 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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