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    "id": 35139,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/35139/?format=api",
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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) According to our records, the number of Kenyans who are listed by the year 2009 were 31,725. Currently, it is estimated that these Kenyans are actually between 40,000 and 45,000. (b) The Minister also wanted to know why the Kenyans who live in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are denied work permits since the year 2010. I want to mention that the applicants or every individual who makes an application to seek job opportunities in UAE or any other country for that matter, are judged on their own merit so that if they can basically qualify on the basic requirement to take up that employment or an opportunity to work somewhere. However, sometimes unexplained reasons are given for security reasons or any other reason which the host countries do not tell us. It is true that in recent years, there has been an increase in the number of Kenyans who have failed to get security clearances to go to the UAE. Kenyans, therefore, continue to lose employment opportunities in the UAE due to this factor. Sometimes, these Kenyans are actually listed as coming from a blocked country, but this is a scenario which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been working on and we believe that we should solve this problem very soon. What are we doing to make sure that Kenyans are not denied these opportunities-- -"
}