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    "id": 1473574,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Alfred Mutua",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection",
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    "content": " Thank you very much. When I was in Saudi Arabia, I met families, including many single mothers with children born in Saudi Arabia. I engaged the Saudi Arabian Government. They said that because of the issue of child trafficking, they cannot just allow a mother to just take a child and come home with it. This is because they realized that when a girl is coming home, another girl tells them: “ Chukua huyu mtoto upelekee mamayangu ”, but the child never reaches or it becomes a child trafficking programme. We agreed that the mother undergoes a Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) test with the child and they have instituted a DNA system. So, there is a verification that the child is yours and there is a permit is given for you to travel with that child and leave the country. They are basically protecting so that a mother does not wake up and say her child is missing. You will look for that child, unakuta aliingia ndege na Mkenya amaMganda, or another person from another country like Nigeria, Tanzania or anywhere, naameenda na walisema ni mtoto wao . So, it is also protecting our children who are born in those countries so that the mother knows that my child, ata akipatikana barabarani, hatatoroshwa apelekwe nchinyingine akauzwe because a DNA test will need to be done. So, we worked on that. We now have safe houses that are continuing being set up so that when a mother or child is in distress, they can go to there. There is an organized system to protect them. Madam Temporary Speaker, with your permission, I believe that the documents that Sen. Cherarkey was asking about are already on your table. He had said that we had not tabled. They have been found within the system over here. I submit. Thank you."
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