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    "id": 1181231,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1181231/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I also thank Sen. Veronica Maina for finding it fit to bring this issue yet again. As the Senate Majority Leader has said, this is not the first time this issue is being discussed in this House or even in the National Assembly. As we discuss this issue, I urge this House to recognize that this about human rights. If we do not address this issue as a human rights issue and focus on how much revenue we are making, then we will not resolve it. As the matter is referred to the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, I would want Kenya to be among the countries that can stand up for the rights of its citizens who are being treated like slaves in the Middle East. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Senate must move away from being part of the bandwagon that bares the blood of the girls who have died in the Middle East. I want to urge that we divert a little from the proposals by Sen. Cherarkey who has read to us how many millions get remitted from Saudi Arabia. Even if we made US$1 trillion a month over slavery of our people, then we will have failed as a country. I would like the Senate to be that House that tells the Government to review our bilateral agreements with Saudi Arabia so as to ensure that we have provided clauses that can protect any Kenyan who goes to Saudi Arabia to work. Even if we make our laws to be very good, those laws do not apply to Saudi Arabia; those laws apply to Kenyans here. We need to get a commitment from Saudi Arabia that any person from Kenya who goes to"
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