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    "id": 101416,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/101416/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamalwa",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa",
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    "content": "Indeed, in the world, we have had many children being snatched from their parents and taken to foreign lands. It is not just children. We have women too. We have heard very horrible tales of women who have gone to Saudi Arabia, Dubai and other countries who have been abused and few have made their way back. We have heard of a sad story of one who died after being terribly abused by the employers while working as a domestic worker in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is not out of choice that we have those Kenyans out there suffering as they do. It is because we have reached an age where there is modern day slavery. In ancient days, we had the slave traders coming here in ships. They would dock in Mombasa and they would venture into the hinterland and they were armed. They would go out and chase the Africans in the villages. They would lock them up in chains, put them on their slave ships and take them away to America to work on the cotton farms and do manual labour in other foreign jurisdictions. But these days, we have modern day slavery; they no longer come with slave ships. They come in different robes. Some come in the name of religion and are armed with Bibles as Ms. Odhiambo has told us today. They have managed to get many ignorant Kenyans out of this country and out there, they have been subjected--- Apart from domestic workers and housemaids who are working out there, we have young girls who have been turned into prostitutes. They have been forced to render those services far away from home. They are mostly lured by some people whom they trust. We heard of a Kenyan madam in the United Kingdom who had so many Kenyan girls in London and she was running a brothel. The tales of the young girls who were found in a terrible state were horrifying. What they had to do for a living was shocking. But because of poor immigration regulations, we have people out there who have no proper papers and who cannot return to this country. They cannot go to our foreign missions to get help and they have been turned into slaves."
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