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    "content": "father, same mother. This shows how shared this problem is. I want to congratulate Sen. Orengo for opening debate to that extent. Madam Temporary Speaker, Kenya is so rich and people are so disturbed with these things that in the last few days, I have been sitting with professionals and former colleagues at the university and we have been talking about what to do because this problem is real. We have talked in those places and we are now talking in the right place and Sen. Orengo captured it right. The issue is vetting. What some patriotic Kenyans are saying is that the chief and the assistant chief should be the one to receive applications for identity cards. When he vets that list in his or her particular area, it is then forwarded to the Office of the County Commissioner or the Governor, whatever will be operative. Then vetting should be done at the locational level and all the current vetting committees should be disbanded because they have since become victims of manipulation through corruption and so on. Madam Temporary Speaker, as you do this, the trouble is the over-age refugees, that is, people who come while they are 25 years old and claim to have come from a certain place. The experts say that these people should be referred to a special committee where the CID and the National Intelligent Service (NIS) sits and further investigations should be done, including DNA. It is not possible that all these people when they ran away into refugee camps, the entire family went there. In some cases we have an uncle who went to graze his cattle in Ethiopia and did not go to the camp. So, when he comes back, they can share the DNA and scientifically establish that these are our brothers and sisters. You remember how retired President Kibaki behaved. He was under a lot of pressure from Koigi wa Wamwere that the man who was referred to as “Mathenge” from Ethiopia should be declared a national hero, but Kibaki said due process should be followed. The rest is history. Madam Temporary Speaker, the vetting and registration of students should be done in their homes. When it is done in schools, it is open to manipulation. The young Senator who has a Somali wife from Mogadishu has left; I wish he was here to hear me on this one. There are so many Ugandan women who are married to Luhyas. We live with them and we have even forgotten that they were Ugandans. The former Assistant Minister, Mr. Shamala, who is my cousin; his wife is a Pakistani. So, the issue of your wife does not arise because in every African culture, the tribe of a woman is the tribe of her husband where she is married."
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