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    "id": 331307,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Onyonka",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 128,
        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
        "slug": "richard-onyonka"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I would like to inform the House that the parents of the deceased, Mr. Patrick Mwiga and Mrs. Mary Gichuhi wrote a letter on 15th June, 2012 authorizing for a post mortem to be conducted once they got wind of the loss of their daughter. The information that came to the Kenyan Mission as to the death of our beloved was that; around 10th June, 2012 a Mr. Mohamed Mahamud, an employer to Mrs. Esther Muthoni Ngarega informed the Kenyan Embassy in Jeddah that Mrs. Ngarega had drowned on 4th June, 2012 in his residence swimming pool and that it was an accident. Mr. Mahamud had reported to the Daran Police Station in Saudi Arabia and informed the embassy that the body of the deceased was at the Damam Central Hospital. On 6th June, 2012 the Mission sent two Kenyan nationals who were living in Damam to go and check at the Daran Police Station as to whether this accident had actually taken place. Subsequently, on 10th June, 2012 the embassy informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nairobi of this death in order for the information to be conveyed to the lady’s parents. Mr. Speaker, Sir, after the information was relayed to her parents, there was then correspondence from the lady’s mother who had requested by writing that she wanted her daughter to be transported immediately to Nairobi at which point it was not allowed for the simple reason that due process had to be followed. As a result, the Kenyan Embassy made a recommendation with a suggestion that we needed to have this post mortem conducted before the body could be transported to Kenya for burial. The post mortem was done in November, 2012 and the cause of death was indicated in the post mortem that, indeed, our Kenyan sister had actually drowned. After that a report was sent to Nairobi and it looks like there was a mix up because the report that came was written in Arabic. The parents were not able to interpret this report and so it was returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where interpretation was made. Thereafter the final report was issued to the parents. Since this report was handed over to Mr. Patrick Mwiga and Mrs. Mary Gichuhi, we have been waiting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the parents to issue a letter of no objection for the body of the deceased to be transported to Kenya for burial. (b) I am not aware that Ms. Lilian Nyambura, the sister to the deceased, who is also working in Saudi Arabia is not allowed to communicate with her parents by her employer. No such information has been conveyed to the Mission in Riyadh and, therefore, I cannot comment about it. (c) For us to repatriate Ms. Lilian Nyambura back to Kenya I would like the hon. Member to provide the Ministry with the name and telephone contacts where she lives in"
}