Otieno Kajwang

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• 24 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: I want to ask Members of Parliament to be co-operative. I am not saying that this is a rule. If you have a constituency vehicle, it is also a Government vehicle. Please, allow our staff to use it and go round centres, so that they can help in registration. I have not bought myself a constituency vehicle, but this time I will buy it and that is the job it will do. view
• 2 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a)The issuance of the national identity cards has not been stopped in any part of the country, but has been scaled down due to low levels of production materials for the identity cards. This has been occasioned by expiry of contract for supply of materials which the Government had with the current suppliers. (b) I am aware that the interruption violates Article 12(1)(b) of the Constitution. (c) Registration exercise is still going on all over the country, but production and issuance of identity cards has gone down as explained here above. However, ... view
• 2 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is regrettable. We had a contract with the company that has been supplying us with materials and who have been producing the identity cards for this country since 1995. That contract was for ten years, which ended in 2005. From 2005, we have been kind of extending this contract against our wish, because the intention was that we move to the third generation identity card which would have been much more secure. It would have had a chip which could be usable for many other uses including voting, NHIF, NSSF, KRA and all those things ... view
• 2 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, of course, it is a violation of the Constitution, but on the other hand, I have explained the kind of predicament we are in if we are going to secure the production of the identity cards. In the meantime, we have to engage somebody to do it. The engagement of that somebody means that we have to follow the procurement rules – that is also in the Constitution. That is the process that we have started vigorously. In the meantime, we are going out to continue with registration. I want us to distinguish the two things; ... view
• 2 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me separate the two issues. First of all, it is a right for every Kenyan to have an identity card and I will not argue about that because it is already in our Constitution. Even if it was not in our Constitution, we still penalized Kenyans for not registering, if they have not registered on time. So, it has been in our law and there is no question about that. The issue is not even money because I have money. The Ninth Parliament allocated my Ministry Kshs2 billion to continue with registration, and I have ... view
• 2 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what order have I broken? view
• 2 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. We must distinguish between additional questions, which we have a right to ask and points of orders. I must be given time to explain what I want to explain before they ask further questions which I will answer. The materials are not there or, at least, they are not sufficient. We are in the process of procuring those materials. The company that will procure them must be contracted. We have been told that the contract that we entered into cannot be extended any further and we must procure the materials afresh. We are going ... view
• 2 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, of course, that was a point of comment and a point of debate and not so much of a point of order. However, let me say this. We have Kshs2 billion which this House voted to the Ministry in order to proceed with the buying of materials. Incidentally, registration has not stopped. We can continue with that whether we have a company supporting us in production or not. So, going from one village to the other has not stopped. What makes the exercise slow is the fact that we need some money to do an emergency ... view
• 2 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, registration is not the identity card. Registration is capturing your data into a database, which we already have. view
• 2 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, production of an identity card is printing of information which is in the database. I know that you want identity cards, and I know that I should give out identity cards. I am saying that that we will continue with registration and issue identity cards when the materials are available. We are in the process of doing that. view