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    "content": "called upon to urge the Exchequer to give the Ministry a lot more money than it has been given previously. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, sometimes, we take these rights for granted. There was a time when one Sheikh Khalid Balala was, by pronouncement of the Government, declared to be a non-citizen of this country, whereas one could trace his roots in Kenya, where he was born, where he had lived and where his mother came from. Sheikh Balala went to Germany and became a stateless person. It was very difficult under the law, as it existed then, to have a clear determination as to whether he was a citizen of Kenya. Of course, the State was bending the law to make sure that Sheikh Khalid Balala could not come back to Kenya. Whether we liked him or not, that was not really the point, but if you read the law, as it is exists today, he would have a legal basis to go to court. Indeed, he went to court at that time. I think hon. Kajwang is the one who filed the case to try and assert the rights of Sheikh Khalid Balala, who was at that time a very unpopular person as far as the Executive was concerned. He was hunted everywhere. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the right to be issued with a passport, at one time, I was travelling out of this country. I was on an aircraft. I was gauged out of the aircraft and my passport was taken away. I was told that I had no business travelling because I was characterised as a wanted element. My passport was taken away, and I did not see it again for about six years. Every time I tried to get it back, I was not allowed to get it back. Now, even though it is a property of the Republic of Kenya, it is prescribed in this law that it is your right to own it. So, this is a progressive law, and the Minister has worked hard to make sure that it falls within the four corners of the Constitution. He has borrowed from the best practices in the world. With those remarks, I beg to second."
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