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    "id": 1052961,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, we oppose this amendment for the reason that the principle being reiterated under Clause 29 is a very important principle governing humanitarian interventions, more so around refugees. It is what we call non-refoulement - that you cannot return a person to a hostile territory or expel them from where they are safe. The amendment being proposed by Hon. Millie seeks to add personal convictions and failure to conform to retrogressive cultural practices as reasons as to why a person can enjoy refugee status and avoid being expelled. My concern is that ‘personal convictions’ and ‘cultural practices’ are very subjective. A person may say you cannot return him to his country because he has convictions on what in our country is a crime. He may say he has conviction to murder children or to defile. The proposal is subjective. I want to request Hon. Millie to withdraw this amendment. The definition in the Bill is word for word what is in international conventions."
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