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    "id": 251703,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/251703/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Salat",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 214,
        "legal_name": "Nick Kiptoo Korir Salat",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion of Adjournment. The question of these individuals being in this country is one that has actually gone to the extent of Kenyans wondering whether there is value in being Kenyan. To be a Kenyan, you should be accorded more respect than a person whose identity the Government does not know. These people seem to be accorded more respect than other Kenyans. As the Mover of the Motion said, when these two people came back to the country, they had the audacity to say, in their funny dialect: \"We are in Kenya now to invest\". When one reporter asked them about the next general election, they had the audacity to say: \"We will support whoever we think we should support when that time comes\". These characters should not be living amongst Kenyans. They even went to the extent of actually saying they will import dogs to guard them. If I were the Minister in charge of national security, these characters would be long gone, because they have no respect for the ordinary citizens of this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, they even asked what the Commissioner of Police could do to them. They even went to the extent of questioning the person who is supposed to be in charge of my security, the Minister. What do these people have? There has to be somebody somewhere who is giving these elements protection. Those of us who have been lucky to go outside this country know that if you dare a citizen of your host country, you will arrive at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) with only the clothes on your body. This is because the authorities in that country respect the value of one being a citizen of that country. In this country, strangers can trample on us and get away with it. It should not be allowed to go on. When they walk on the streets of Nairobi, they look like they are stars because they can do whatever they want. One of them went to the extent of saying: \"I spend Kshs150,000 a day on my girlfriend.\" We need to bring back the dignity of this country. We need to assure Kenyans that there is value in being Kenyan. We need to ensure that we do not allow strangers, who wear some strange things on their necks, with every part of their bodies \"marked\" in a language we do not even understand---"
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