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    "speaker_name": "Masinga, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Mwalyo",
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        "legal_name": "Joshua Mbithi Mwalyo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. I want to say something about this Bill. Indeed, we thank the Committee for the good work, for thinking about this Bill, so that we can have structures to govern the refugees in this country. These are human beings just like us and they need to be taken care of the way the Constitution takes care of each of us. The Bill will bring sanity to the management of refugees so that they can have structures in place to manage them and their affairs. Many have said that this country has been hosting these refugees for over 30 years, indeed, we have been very generous. This is a generous country. We have been able to take care of them. Even when some people wanted them to be kicked out of this country, the administration said that they would still hold on to them and they are still here. That is why we are being honoured or paid by God because we are taking care of the vulnerable; those who do not have places to go and those that are unable to help themselves. It is very important to help someone who will never be able to help you. Therefore, it is an honour for this country to have taken care of the refugees from Sudan, Somalia, and other countries. We even used to take care of the refugees from Uganda when Idi Amin had chased them from their country. We have become a host country; a country that is so generous. Therefore, this Bill will help bring sanity in all the ways and to have some controls. Some of these refugees do not behave well, others behave well while others live large, especially the ones who were coming from South Sudan before their independence. They used to live in Karen and Lavington and they were the envy of many. Some of us wondered why they lived large yet, we as the citizens could not afford to live like them. To me, this is a God-sent opportunity that we can bring order to the management of these human beings called refugees because they are human like us. I remember one day there was a newspaper article from Kakuma that one of the refugees there had put up a huge wholesale business that sold everything until Equity Bank had to open a small branch to only cater for that one person because he was banking a lot of money. To me, these are human beings who have a lot of energy, a lot of brains and they can become good businessmen. Therefore, their being taken care of by this Bill will help them. Also, in the refugee camps there is a lot of employment because international organizations normally bring their professionals to do logistics in those camps; to supply food and other essential items to the refugees and this creates employment. If all these can be brought together by this Bill, then it will be a good thing so that we can move forward. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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