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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Konchela",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Sitelu Konchella",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to support the mover of this Bill for bringing this important Bill to the Floor of the House. Indeed, it is a Bill that should have been here ten years ago but unfortunately, we have waited this long for this wonderful lady to bring it. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of trafficking in human beings is a problem in this country. Today, Kenya is one of the routes for human trafficking from Ethiopia, Somalia and other neigbouring countries. This thing has been going on. There are agents of human trafficking who are stationed in Nairobi and other parts of this country. They bring these people, hold them and slowly start selling them either to Europe or other parts of the world, including the Middle East. This has been a problem because most of these people are young and do not speak their language. They also do not understand where they are going. They believe that they are going for economic gain but they have no idea that they will end up as slaves. Worse of all, in our country we have a problem of tourists who come and stay for up to three months which is allowed in the visa. Once they come, they move to the coast, get involved with the local population and from there, they cheat them and take their children to Europe. Once they get them to Europe, they dump them in brothels and they are permanently confined until they are useless. They then shoot them or just poison them to die. The suffering of young women who go to Europe is an issue in which the Government must intervene. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am happy because this Bill addresses this issue of taking people by force through abducting, cheating or marriage and they end up in misery. One other thing I would like the mover to think about is a special police force to deal with investigation and arrest in an attempt to rescue those people who are confined, by following them to where they have gone in every country. I would also wish that the Ministry of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons would open a special department that will deal with young people going abroad because they have been married or are going to work somewhere. Most of them are cheated to go and work or go to school but end up being slaves in those countries. This is very important and I wish the hon. Member considers it. The police should be able to train a special force. They should be able to train officers and send them all over the world to track Kenyans. With the Government ratio of the IPRA system, I believe we can have a database of all Kenyans leaving the country and we can then be able to trace them where they go. We have embassies in various parts of the world and we can then be able to follow them with the officers stationed in those countries. Allowing your people to be subjected to inhuman treatment and slavery is wrong. This is wrong, particularly, if it is sex slavery. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is the problem of children being adopted and taken outside Kenya. When they end up there, nobody is able to follow whether they are going to school. Most of these children end up being used as body parts for operations in those major capitals. These are the problems that poor Kenyans go through. It is high time this Bill took care of that problem. On the issue of penalties, I believe the person who promotes and those who earn a living out of this business should be punished more than anybody else. If they were not promoting these things, then nobody would do it. It is these merchants of death who the Bill should take care of and make sure they do not live to see another day. I would think that life imprisonment would be the best option for such people. If they are jailed for a year or two, they will come out and continue doing the same things. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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