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    "id": 98925,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Baya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis S. K. Baya",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do agree with the hon. Member. In fact, the situation is the same in almost all districts. We have a serious shortage of staff. Out of the 265 districts that we have currently, only 104 are staffed with civil registration officials. We have written to the Treasury and to the Ministry of State for Public Service, asking them to allow us to recruit officers. We are still waiting for their reply. Since February this year, the department has issued 900,000 certificates. Out of these 900,000 certificates only 600,000 have been collected. Three hundred thousand are still pending. I wish to state that parents should be encouraged to go and collect these certicates. The department, or the Ministry, has made arrangements with chiefs and heads of schools so that problems can be attended to by the officials. For the time being, we have to stay the way we are until we get authority to recruit more officers."
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