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    "id": 35142,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/35142/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Onyonka",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, various efforts have been made to address the problem of Kenyans being denied visas to go to the UAE and, indeed, all other countries in the Arab world. I can assure you that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the meeting where His Excellency the President, on 1st May, 2009 at State House met the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the UAE, Sheikh Abdallah bin Zayed Al Nayan, the Sheikh assured the President and, indeed, the Government of Kenya that they will make sure that Kenyans are given an equal opportunity like anybody else who will apply to look for a job in the Middle East, in this case, the UAE. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also realized that inadvertently, the mistake that our Government has made before is that we had no bilateral labour agreements between our country and all the other countries where our people are working in the diaspora. Therefore, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is now consulting to have an inter- Ministerial discussion between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Labour, so that we can have a bilateral agreement between us and many of the countries where our people work, so that we can then lay out the conditionalities and the acceptable best practices so that our people can be employed."
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