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    "id": 1156794,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1156794/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okelo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odoyo Okelo",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. It is true that diaspora remittances to this country is annual, and looking at 2021, it was over Kshs300 billion. Last year in December, it hit the highest record ever at Kshs39.7 billion in just one month. Therefore, when the diaspora brings a concern on issues of investments in this country, we must pay much attention. Many of them have lost money in the hands of clandestine businesspeople who only purport to be businessmen. We do not have strict controls on who should invest on behalf of the diaspora. So, I think we need to go a notch higher and carry out background checks which stems into registration of businesses that carry out diaspora investments. People have lost money and set- up buildings that have not been completed. You can only imagine the amount of money this country is losing in the hands of conmen mushrooming in the streets as investors. I support this Petition because we need to do the necessary to safeguard the interests of these people, who do not sleep so as to make money to bring to this country. You are aware that people keep more than two jobs in America and sleep less than two hours so that they can make ends meet. When they send home this money that they sweat to receive, somebody burns it out, and this does not make sense at all."
}