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    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "Refugees are a worldwide crisis and the earliest this was spotted was 3,000 or 4,000 years ago, when in the Mosaic Law we are able to see cities of refuge. Funny enough, the Mosaic Law, other than in very unlikely situation has not been contradicted by much legislation in the world. If you look at the Mosaic Law, one of the requirements was to take care of the refugees, the homeless, the less fortunate and those without food. It was really a serious requirement. And when someone committed manslaughter, they would run to a city of refuge. Coming to modern times, the Chair of the Committee on Administration and National Security, Hon. Koinange is aware, we have a gentleman called David Beasley, who is the Director of World Food Programme (WFP) and he has been traversing the world including Kenya. He is a great person to us because he has been feeding these refugees. Statistics show that many refugees, especially children, die out of hunger if there is a little delay of delivery of these donations. This tells us that there is a problem, not only in Kenya but worldwide. This is a matter which we need to address as a country, having accommodated Somalis, South Sudanese, Burundians, Ugandans and all our neighbours. Most of these refugees flee from war and we even have the latest from Turkey. When there was a problem in Turkey recently, some of the Turkish citizens who live here automatically became refugees. Therefore, I really want to thank the Committee and urge Members to support this because we are now able to address the loopholes we had in the law that we could not seal. But most importantly, we have to protect these people and their human rights have to be protected. They have to be treated well because anyone can be a refugee anytime in the world. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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