{"id":1562045,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1562045/?format=json","text_counter":221,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Musalia Mudavadi","speaker_title":"The Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs","speaker":{"id":84,"legal_name":"Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi","slug":"musalia-mudavadi"},"content":"Once again, I wish to state that Article 14(1), as read with Clause 30 of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of Kenya, stipulates that: “14(1) A person is a citizen by birth if on the day of the person’s birth, whether or not the person is born in Kenya, either the mother or the father is a Kenyan citizen”. This provision outlines the principle of citizenship by parentage thus granting automatic citizenship to children born abroad to Kenyan citizens."}