Hon Mary Wamaua Waithira Njoroge

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• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: information required for issuance of birth certificates to all children and puts in place administrative mechanisms to ensure that every child is automatically issued with a birth certificate before he attains the age of three years. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thought of this Motion because of the many problems parents go through while trying to access birth certificates. It is the ministry’s policy that all children in schools, both secondary and primary, should be registered using birth certificates. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Civil registration is an act of registering births and deaths in a country to capture data of population trends. This assists the Government in planning to render services to its people. Therefore, the registration centres are where people go to register for birth certificates. So, birth registration is registering a child’s birth. This is the first right that any child gets after birth. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Birth registration not only guarantees a child’s right to a name and nationality, but it also fulfils a wide range of other rights and requirements like access to other identification documents such as the National Identity (ID) Card. The Ministry of Education has made it mandatory for children to be registered in schools using birth certificates so that, that information is captured. That is why we have the NEMIS system in use. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Registration entitles a child to a birth certificate which is issued from the returns compiled by the Registrar of Births. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child recognises birth registration as a fundamental human right. There are so many other laws that we have passed in this country which give legal framework for birth registration in Kenya. We have Article 12(b) of the Constitution which states that: “(1) Every citizen is entitled to – (b) a Kenyan passport and any document of registration or identification issued by the State to citizens.” We also have another legal framework ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: need to urge the Government to use the technological strides this country has made and establish database centres for purposes of storing and harmonising all the necessary information required for the issuance of birth certificates. There are several challenges faced by our parents when acquiring birth certificates for their children, more now than before because a birth certificate is a must for our children to enroll in school. One challenge parents face is missing information of the parents and child as a result of improper documentation. When our parents go to the civil registration centres, there are documents they are ... view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an extra two minutes. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I stand corrected. I move the Motion because of the challenges our constituents are facing while acquiring birth certificates. I request Hon. Thuku, Member for Kinangop, to second. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the Motion. view
• 5 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: I request Hon. Kwenya Thuku, Member for Kinangop Constituency, to second. view
• 8 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, aware that the Constitution and the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act, 2011 provides that every citizen is entitled to any document of registration or identification issued by the State to citizens including a birth certificate; further aware that Article 53(2) of the Constitution of Kenya provides that a child’s best interests are of paramount importance in every matter concerning the child; cognisant of the fact of issuance of birth certificate during civil registration association with children is a challenge across the country due to among other issues missing ... view