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    "id": 1181220,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1181220/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I congratulate Sen. Veronica Maina for bringing to fore a very topical issue. This is a conversation that Kenyans have had in the last few months leading up into the general elections and even after. This is on the plight of Kenyan domestic workers in the Middle East and generally on their welfare. I say this because I know for a fact that even during the vetting of the now serving CS for Labour and Social Services, she spent a good amount of time answering questions from Members of the National Assembly Appointment Committee on this issue. I have also taken time to listen to my colleague Senators contribute yesterday and today on this issue. I appreciate their depth of understanding of issues that Kenyan migrant workers continue to face in the far lands where they have gone to look for better opportunities, which unfortunately, their own motherland cannot provide. First, it is quite heartbreaking that we have to get to this. As a country, we must continue to have a conversation on how we will turn back the tides of time. This is so that at a particular time, I do not how long, maybe for 10 to 20 years or more years, we will have people emigrating to our country to look for work just as our own children are now doing. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, and my colleague Senators, I do not know how many have had the opportunity when boarding any of the planes that depart from the Jomo Kenyatta"
}