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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ali",
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    "content": "not even know where we were born. We just roam around, then we are asked to get birth certificates. Where do you get it from? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, these are very serious issues, because getting birth certificates in a place like Wajir is literally impossible. This is because there is one small room in Wajir Town, as mentioned by Sen. Seneta, and some parts of the county are 300 kilometres away. How do those kids access birth certificates? I want to ask the Committee to look into these issues seriously and see how they can devolve this service to the location or sub-location level. Why do we have chiefs and assistant chiefs all over the country? We are now being asked to register with this funny thing called the NIIMS. Why do you not give the booklets of birth certificates to the chiefs and assistant chiefs to register any child that is born and any person who dies, because they are the ones who know what is really happening on the ground? They go around in the communities even if they are nomadic communities. If we are left the way we are right now, yet every child who is supposed to go to Form One or Grade One must have a birth certificate, where will they get it from? This applies to a child who was born in the bush; who was looking after animals in the bush. Then when you decide that you want to take this child to a boarding school somewhere, nearly 100 kilometres away, you are then asked to provide a birth certificate. These are impossibilities. I, therefore, urge the Committee to look into these very serious issues."
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