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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am actually saddened by the answer that the Assistant Minister has given. I have worked for years, including doing research on issues of trafficking in persons in the same countries that he is speaking about. His answer itself shows elements of human trafficking. All the things that he has said are ingredients of human trafficking. You will find that one is hurt but she says that she cannot leave because one of the things you would find is that her passport is not within her control. Her family is probably being threatened. They will say that they have received her salary yet the salary has not even reached her home. So, by his own confession, in his lengthy answer, the Assistant Minister is actually telling us that this is a victim of human trafficking. What he has told us in his answer confirms elements of human trafficking. My only concern is that the Assistant Minister has said that they are forming inter-Ministerial teams and what have you, outside the framework of the law that we passed here. I have raised this matter before. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have so many cases of girls and men who have been trafficked to the Middle East. In his answer, the Assistant Minister said that all African and Asian countries are withdrawing their nationals from the Middle East but Kenya is sending her nationals to work there. Therefore, I would want to ask whether it is possible that this Question be referred to a Departmental Committee to deal with it exhaustively. This is not the first case of trafficking of girls. This girl is enslaved. We need to find a way of getting this girl out of that situation."
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