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    "id": 953924,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/953924/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank Sen. (Dr.) Ali for bringing up this issue. As Members of Parliament, we sometimes have to walk to Nyayo House to follow up on the issue of passport issuance for our constituents. We understand that the Government has to be careful to make sure that Kenyan documents are only issued to Kenyans and include vetting the people from border counties because foreigners can acquire Kenyan documents. However, someone does not know what they are doing at Nyayo House. Elderly people from Northern Kenya are forced to travel all the way to process passports in Nairobi majorly to go for Hajj. Such elderly people are also subjected to vetting. I wonder who the right person to vet such an individual is. Is it not somebody at the sub-county level or the regional level who knows the background of that person? However, you will find people queuing there throughout the year. I have had an opportunity to go to Nyayo House at different times of the year and I always see elderly people from Northern Kenya queuing there. If vetting for the national identity cards is done at the local level, vetting for the passports should also be done at the local level because there is no difference between the national identity card and passport. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if one can apply and process the national identity card at the sub-county level, passports can also be processed locally. We need to decongest the queues at Nyayo House by decentralizing the Department of Immigration. We should look into how we can provide services effectively to Kenyans and not to subject them to suffering in Nairobi."
}