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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to thank you and congratulate my senior, Sen. Haji, for bringing this Motion. I want to spend the next few minutes trying to persuade the Senators who are here today that out of factual research that I have done on this Motion, there is need for us to appreciate that this problem is really big and that it is above us and that we cannot solve it through this kind of Motion. I want you to bear with me as I roll out the facts. Madam Temporary Speaker, the first one is that I want to register my sympathies to those Kenyan Somalis who for no reason other than humanitarian relief ended up denouncing their citizenship, so to speak, and pretending to be refugees. I want to draw the attention of this House to the fact that the Government has never been asleep on this issue. Up to and including when the census was done, the Minister in charge, today the Governor of Kakamega, actually nullified results in the same districts that we have talked about. There was a problem and this problem cannot be solved through a Motion. To claim that these people in the camp are not known is to assume that we do not have a government in Kenya. It is there. I have done research for refugees just for a period of January to April, 2010 and I have it here. Thousands of refugees are on this document. Against each refugee, the Government has indicated that they are in the camp and the day they arrived in the camp, the day their presence was supposed to expire and for what reason. In this record, which is authentic, the Government indicates whenever a refugee leaves the camp to go to Nairobi. They have also indicated the reason why they are leaving. Genuine refugees are here in this form and the reasons for leaving, including taking a child to school, medical attention, travel to Kilimanjaro and so on. The refugees we are talking about are listed here. Whenever they leave the camp, they say, I am leaving for reunification with my family. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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