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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in this regard, perhaps Asia leads in the ravages of human trafficking. Africa is number two. This continent looses in excess of 10,000 people who drown in the Mediterranean Sea while crossing to Europe. Their boats capsize as they are trafficked to places of imagined heaven. Some even perish while walking across the Sahara. If you go to West Africa, you will be told horrific stories of young boys and girls recruited and lured to walk for thousands of kilometres across the Sahara to get to what are called green pastures in Europe. When we talk about human trafficking, and as Ms. Odhiambo has rightly pointed out the issues that relate to human trafficking like forced marriage and sexual exploitation, nothing is worse than child- trafficking and trafficking for sexual exploitation. In fact we have an organization in this country called the International Organization on Migration. If you look at their statistics, you will find that Kenya unfortunately, stands out as a key transit point for human trafficking. People from troubled spots like Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and many other countries are trafficked through this country to imagined safe heavens outside the country. If you go out there, you will find that even in the Arabian sub-continent, there are very many women recruited from the coastal part of Kenya and taken to Saudi Arabia as workers. When they get there, their passports are confisticated and locked up. They are then used as workers and sex slaves. In Article 2, Ms. Odhiambo fell in the same trap as the Bill we just passed, in the definition of organized crime. I would like that she amends at the Committee Stage the definition of organized criminal group to remove the words “existing for a period of time”. This is because a group can be formed and mutate into something very big within no time and engage in criminality of unparalleled proportions. So, I advise the Mover to do the same as we did in the other Bill and remove the phrase “existing for a period of time” on page 63."
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