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    "id": 1008343,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "affirmative action for women, children and Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) - as well as voluntary repatriation and resettlement of refugees within Kenya. Next are miscellaneous provisions, which are contained within Part VIII. This part covers issues of registration for refugees and asylum seekers, offences and penalties, repeal of Cap. 173 of the Refugees Act as well as the transitional provisions of moving from the existing law to the new law once it is passed by Parliament. Part X contains provisions on delegated legislation. It empowers the Cabinet Secretary to make provisions generally to give effect to this Act and prescribe anything else that is not covered. So, I believe this Bill is timely. As I said, Kenya is host to several people from our destabilised neighbourhoods. I am not sure whether we have any Kenyans out there claiming to be refugees. We have always been a haven of peace. I hope through this Bill and proper management, we will be setting the standards for the rest of the world in terms of how you host people from destabilised countries. The passage of this Bill will ensure that when people who have problems in their countries of origin seek safe haven in other countries, they are not treated as lesser human beings than they were or they would like to be. I believe that is the spirit of this Bill. I thank the Committee because they have done extensive work and they will take us through the Bill in detail, after which Members will be free to ventilate and enrich it, so that by the time we get to the Committee of the whole House, we can have a model Bill for the rest of the world. With those remarks, I beg to move and ask Hon. Paul Koinange, who is the Chairperson of the responsible parliamentary committee, to second."
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