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    "id": 316443,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/316443/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Hassan",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Hassan Abdi",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this issue affects a large number of people in my constituency. In fact, many of those people who are denied visas are people with connections in Kenya. They are married to Kenyans and some of them have investments in this country. Someone from Iceland or any other country, maybe the Artic, can be given an automatic visa to come to our country while these people are denied visas. Is it right for this Ministry to have a discriminative, almost an apartheid type of policy, towards one particular group of people? These people are coming to our country with goodwill as investors, travelers and tourists. They are forced to go to Uganda where they are given visas without any problem. The other element is that many of them were given refugee status from Kenya. There is enough gutter intelligence about them and their lives because they have lived in our refugee camps for many years. That information is available to the Government of Kenya. Is it right for Kenya to be discriminating against those people and using policies that are outdated? In fact, these are well meaning people who want to come and spend their money here. They have purchasing power and are well to do people."
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