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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I would like to add my voice to Sen. Onyonka's statement about illegal organ trade. This has since been brought to the public and to the limelight that our youth are being recruited by rogue agents, particularly in the area of Eldoret, to sell their kidneys for less than US$1000. Now the going rate, apparently, is US$250,000 to US$D300,000 for a kidney. Apparently, it has become such a lucrative business for these agents, because once they do that they are selling these kidneys at about Kshs9 million to India. We have a whole group of cartels who have organized that space in a way that it has become a norm in Eldoret. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is unfortunate that this has even spread down to the labour export agents. Agents who are supposed to be taking people to go and work abroad are now looking for desperate youth to ensure that they harvest their organs and make a killing in between for agency fee. Some are being lied to that they will work outside and it is all under the Government’s watch. I hope that when this statement is dealt with, we will not just give a report as usual. We have to see arrests. There are many of our desperate youth who have ended up with severe complications because they are being promised Kshs300,000 instantly. Some are being promised an exchange for a boda boda . Can you imagine? Being so desperate, they are saying, “Let me give out my kidneys to own a boda boda and start earning a living. This is unfortunate. It is not what this Government intended to do with our youth."
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