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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for the two minutes. I rise to support this Statement on this issue of birth certificates. Last year, without involving this House, the National Assembly amended The Registrations of Persons Act and took it directly to the President for assent. The sole reason they did this was to introduce this issue of NIIMS. I fail to understand where the responsibilities of this country are. If Kenyans who are born in this country cannot even access a birth certificate, what is the point in registering and getting this number, which they have no clue what it is all about? It is about time that we changed the way we deliver services to our people. Right now, people are dying in Turkana County, and it is very difficult to know how many people are dying there because most of them have no record of their birth. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my colleague from Wajir spoke about us, pastoralists. In Narok County, this has become a big problem, where most children are not even being registered to do their national examinations because they do not have birth certificates. This country, particularly the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government are trying to come up with this new NIIMS; and for the record, I will not subscribe to it. This is because for me to subscribe to it, it must have been considered by this House so that I can add my input, because that is what the law dictates. Instead of them amending the Act and introducing this NIIMS, they ought to have taken that point to amend that Act to ensure that children are registered first. For us to have a solution to this problem, I would suggest that the Committee which will deal with this matter adopts other means of ensuring that every person is registered. We are about 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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