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    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thank my colleague for the answer but he has definitively not responded to one or two issues that were raised. He states that the 18,236 Pakistanis who abnormally came into the country within a short period of four months were here legally. Then why were they arrested? Why were they harassed? Why were they taken to a police station at a later stage and then released under very questionable circumstances? That is the first point. Secondly, I asked, in my Statement Request, whether it is normal for any country to receive 18,000 people from one country within such a short period of time at a time when the area from which those people are coming is experiencing unrest. Remember, some Afghans went to Uganda and other countries. So, we wanted to question whether these were genuine Pakistanis who were going to Saudi Arabia. If so, why is this the first time in the history of Kenya that we are vetting thousands of people from the same country coming into the country? Some of them were dumped in some apartments and were walking around begging for water. Thirdly, I asked whether the authorities had been able to trace the Kenyan and Pakistani agents. I can assume that they do not know how to trace the Pakistani agents. However, it is shown that for each one, a minimum of USD5,000 was paid. Eighteen thousand (18,000) times USD5,000 is USD90 million. Of those USD90 million, how did Kenya benefit after exposing this country to a great risk of hosting 18,000 foreigners? Most of them stayed in Kajiado area. My friend is on the phone, but he understands that the fallout of COVID-19 could have been disastrous. So, if I am being told that this is normal and all things were taken in good perspective and we are going to do this, which other country has done this in Africa? So, we do not mind…"
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