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    "id": 22632,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/22632/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Onyonka",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
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    "content": "(b) Yes, I am also aware of Madam Alice Sasati who was stranded in Lebanon. As the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, I personally took responsibility and talked to the Kenyan Honorary Consular, a gentleman known as Mr. Chaluhi, who then painfully looked for Madam Sasati and eventually found that she had gone to Lebanon to work as a house help on a monthly salary of US$200. Once Madam Sasati arrived in Lebanon, there was confusion as to whether she had changed her mind from working for the individual who took her there, or whether she decided to go there and work in a hotel. Once that issue came up, the individual who had taken her to Lebanon then decided to take her. They then chained her to a house where she stayed until when the Honorary Consul, Mr. Chaluhi, arrived in that house with police officers to go and rescue her. Upon receiving information from Madam Sasati’s father who spoke to me personally, our Ministry did the best we could to make sure that we saved her. Ms. Sasati, as a result of our finding out where she was working, agreed to leave working for the individual who had taken her there. We asked her to come back to Kenya. But she said she wanted to stay and continue working there because she did not think her chances of getting a good job in Nairobi were going to be successful. The Honorary Consul, Mr. Chaluhi, talked to Madam Sasati’s father who had come to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs a number of times, and explained to him that the daughter had actually refused to come back to Kenya. The Honorary Consul, therefore, could not forcefully make that lady to come back. However, that lady, apparently, has a baby in Kenya and that is why her father wanted her to come back and take up her responsibility. The problem that has hindered Madam Sasati not to come back is because the family has also been unable to raise a ticket which would bring her from Lebanon to Nairobi. The ticket would cost US$3,500. That amount, if it was to be raised, would be by the person who had taken her to Lebanon to work."
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