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    "id": 1116065,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Petition. I ask the Chairperson, Hon. Kabinga, that as they consider this Petition, they should also seriously look into how the Government can regulate the agents who send our young ladies and men to Saudi Arabia, so that if a person gets harassed or tortured anywhere in Saudi Arabia, then the agent who sent them there should be held culpable back here at home. The problem is with the agents who send our children to people that they know will mistreat them and end up doing nothing. But more so, it is also an indictment on our own Government and even us, as the people’s representatives. I was rather amazed when you read all these names that you read here. It is a matter that, once again, I would want the Chairperson to bear in mind, that Ms. Wanja, Nancy Nyangoha, Esther Wanjiku Thuku, Waruguru Beatrice and Lucy Wambui come from my area. It also points to a bigger problem probably within the region where these names come from in terms of lack of opportunities of employment. That is why I say it is also an indictment on our Government and even on us, as a House, on how we create opportunities the moment you see young Kenyans going to get tortured in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other countries. What they are doing is tantamount to slavery. As much as there is also local slavery through state capture in this country, we must at least protect those who leave this country because we are a sovereign nation. We must stand for them."
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