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    "content": "own border as a country is a manifestation of how deep corruption has gone in this country. Corruption will make us poor and lead to insecurity, like the one that we just witnessed recently. Corruption is going to actually be our major undoing in this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, as a five-year-old, I was a refugee in Somalia. I walked from Isiolo to Kismaiyu and came back as a six-year-old. Luckily, I joined school immediately. There are people who walked with me during the shifta war who remained in Somalia and trekked back. There is a clan called Sakuye, which I belong to, which does not live in any other country than Kenya. The Rendiles and Sakuyes are not found anywhere else in the world other than Kenya. But some Sakuyes, including myself, trekked to Somalia during the shifta war of the late 1960s. All our animals were shot by the Kenyan Army and we walked during the night. At night, hyenas would follow us. I survived that, came back, started school and managed to be a Kenyan Cabinet Minister. That is big luck. But not many of them are as lucky as that. Many of them remained behind and are trekking back. Just about three or four weeks ago, these peoples’ plight was highlighted on Citizen Television . They live in Kenya, in a place called Gafarsa, and have been denied identity cards. Five years ago, some of them came back to Kenya and do not have identity cards. Everytime they go to seek identity cards, the vetting system is not effective and they do not have the money to corrupt the system and get what is rightfully theirs. So, they just live in Kenya without identity cards. They cannot vote or do any other thing that other Kenyans do. So, there is a major challenge in the immigration system. Madam Temporary Speaker, clearly also, we need to face the giant corruption dragon, both at our borders and in this camps. Kenyans should not be denied their rights because of our inefficiencies and corruption. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to support."
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