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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have listened painfully to a number of contributors actually demonizing a community and doing a serious disservice to the proud and patriotic community of North Eastern Province; by implying that laws coming up against crimes and money laundering are targeting that community. It is not possible. I have heard very painfully somebody saying that the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in North Eastern have been shut down and that this law is aimed at people like those. Nobody has actually shown us which clause in this Bill is aimed in that direction. I think we should not make sweeping statements like those and cast aspersions to a proud and patriotic community from North Eastern Province. This Bill is not aimed at them. It is aimed at criminals. The people of North Eastern Province are not criminals. Please, do not paint them as criminals. It is not true, right and just! Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not understand when you have not quoted the exact parts of the Bill that you find to be offensive and you just say “the whole Bill.” That is not possible! This country is facing a problem of corruption. Corruption is not just about the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC). Corruption involves money laundering, drug peddling and such things. Are we telling those mothers and parents who have lost their children to drugs and our brothers and sisters who are dying from drugs that, yes, they can go on dying from drugs, because we, as a House, are scared to put a law in place? I do believe that when we enact this law, in fact, hardly anybody from Islam is going to suffer. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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