12 Oct 2021 in Senate:
It shows there is no serious --- of ID cards. As most of my colleagues have said, it will bring about discrimination of certain areas because some people may not even be able to register now to become voters. That means they will not be able to determine or choose their own government. That is why year in year out, we are talking of low voter registration because of lack of such important documents.
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12 Oct 2021 in Senate:
In addition, I think the Committee that is going to look into the Statement should speak to items that are being asked while somebody is looking for an ID card. Some of the people are now born with different demographics. We have those from single
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12 Oct 2021 in Senate:
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12 Oct 2021 in Senate:
families, orphans and all shades of individuals that are living in this country now, yet, we are still asking them about their grandparents and clans. Our youths know their clan as that they belong to Kenya.
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12 Oct 2021 in Senate:
I would have wished we had an easier method of doing this. Some of our colleagues the Nyumba Kumi or village elders in addition to the chiefs and sub chiefs. Those are very important centres where we would obtain identification cards. For those youths who have already got them very many ID cards are lying at chiefs’ offices and at the headquarters because of a lack of innovation.
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12 Oct 2021 in Senate:
It is only at such a time when we want to register voters that we take it as a matter of seriousness that we want our youths to have ID cards.
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12 Oct 2021 in Senate:
When I was speaking to the youth in Bomet County to register as voters, very many of them told me they had not obtained ID cards. They spoke of the many challenges that they go through in terms of obtaining those ID cards. Apart from the shortage of forms in my county, the fact is that there are many issues being asked. Children of single parents feel ashamed to register because they do not want to display their identity.
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12 Oct 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, we call upon those who register people in this country to ensure that every individual, as long as they are citizens, obtain their IDs because we cannot go anywhere without this. This one can easily be compared to the difficulty we are having in terms of getting the Huduma Namba s.
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12 Oct 2021 in Senate:
We registered for Huduma Namba s, and as I speak right now, my daughter who registered in Nairobi got her Huduma Namba at home, yet I have not gotten mine whilst we registered at the same time. I do not know where my Huduma card is, yet my data has been collected. One would ask what the reason was for going round to collect data from people in the name of providing them with Huduma cards that would work as a one-stop shop card. Sometime back, I heard that in a short while, we shall all have Huduma cards to ...
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12 Oct 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I hope that the Committee that is going to take up this statement will go to the details and look at even the processes that go into obtaining an identification card so that if it is possible, we reduce some and also devolve this issue up to the village, so that we ensure we register everybody in this country. Registration is one way of informing the country on how to plan to provide the various services that are required in this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this Statement.
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