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    "speaker_name": "Kajiado South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Katoo ole Metito",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Janet Marania Teyiaa",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Thank you for guiding me on the issue raised by Hon. Iringo and other Members. The Member should know the rules. If you have a different issue than what is on the Floor, you need to seek a Statement or file a Question. Having said that, I want to inform the House that this is one of the best responses we have received from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I summarised it because it is five pages and so detailed. Hon. Members can pick it from the Table Office and go through the daily engagements between our Ministry Headquarters, our Mission in Addis Ababa and also with the authorities in Ethiopia. It is detailed and thorough. I repeat: It is one of the best responses we have received from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Let me give the highlights. One, we must know that we also have foreign nationals in this country. At times, they go against the law and they get arrested. What matters is taking them through the judicial process to protect their rights. That is what happened to that Kenyan. He was arrested together with four Ethiopian nationals. They were taken through the judicial process. On 5th August, they were taken to the Federal First Instant Court and all of them, Yassin Juma and the four Ethiopian nationals, were released on bail. The following day on August 6th, the Court found that they have no case to answer and ordered for their release. The day after on August 7th, the Ethiopian authorities appealed to the High Court in Addis Ababa in a sub-city called Libeta. The same day of August 7th was the day of the appeal, and the High Court upheld the ruling of the lower court. Therefore, the judicial process was followed. What happened is that, when the High Court upheld the ruling of the lower court, they continued detaining Yassin Juma and the four Ethiopians. Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote what is called “a note verbale” to the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanding that Yassin Juma be released as ordered by the Court. On August 13th, that note verbale was forwarded from Nairobi addressed to the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry. In the process, it was found out that Yassin Juma had contracted Covid-19. So, he could not be released because he was to be quarantined. The Ethiopian authorities told our Kenyan Mission in Addis Ababa to go and pick Yassin Juma although he was Covid-19 positive. However, our Mission in Addis Ababa did not have a quarantine facility. So, he had to stay for 14 The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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