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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Onyonka",
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        "legal_name": "Onyonka Richard Momoima",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to first of all thank Hon. Murgor for raising that issue. My honest observation, Sen. Murgor, is that if the state security operators wanted to know everything that is happening about cattle rustling, all they need to get is drones. They will see who is stealing the cows, where they are taken and see who the owners. However, they will not. Number two, I heard my brother and senior and wonderful friend, Hon. (Dr.) Khalwale, discussing the matter that Hon. Kavindu has raised. In my past life, I was an Assistant Minister for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Seventy per cent of our young Kenyans who have been arrested in these foreign countries carrying drugs were conned, convinced and they carried those drugs to those countries without some of them even knowing that they were actually carrying those drugs. Some of us have friends whose children are involved in these things. I would like for the Government to be softer and kinder. In other jurisdictions, once people are arrested and they are most probably served a period of even five years, normally caring governments repatriate those prisoners to come and finish their terms in their countries. I believe that is what Sen. Kavindu was actually requesting the Government to do. The reality is that there is this sexual exploitation and, indeed, the young people have been arrested because of the sex trafficking which has taken place in those countries. My colleagues in this House know that many Kenyans went out to look for a living or jobs, but some of them got themselves into these activities. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do believe that as a responsible Government and a people, we can interrogate those matters. The Government has the capacity of looking at all the prisoners arrested in foreign countries. It can look at all the Kenyans who have been arrested in different countries and are stationed there. Some of them have been put in detention camps. I believe that is what Sen. Kavindu was talking about. I think when the committee gets to the point, we will be able to explain some of these things. I believe the Ministry of Foreign Affairs does have records of majority of the Kenyans in some of these prisons out of the country. Thank you."
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