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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "No; but I qualified and said that if you look at the entire Constitution, what it embraces are those three words: “All the sovereign power belongs to the people of Kenya;” and if you go to the next chapter, Sen. Kajwang is written all over this Constitution. Look to the chapter on citizenship; again, you will see the footprints of Sen. Kajwang. But one other thing that I must say is that if you look at what is happening in these democracies, like the group of Africans who came from Eritrea and Somalia who sunk and drowned just two weeks ago near Italy, you will find that the European nations have closed their borders to any emigration. If you look at what is happening in Australia, whereby they are turning people away and taking them away to a place where there are black people known as Papua New Guinea, it is informative and instructive of the fact that whereas we must remain democratic, but we must guard our borders. Yes; we must open our borders because there must be good movement of traffic of people, goods and services. However, by the end of the day, some element of concern about the security of the country is fundamental and we cannot run away from that. But let us not have stereotypes. I think this is what informs this Motion; that we begin to develop stereotypes. Once you have certain fears and get stereotypes, then people are profiled and characterised so that how we deal with our brothers, Kenyan Somalis; we have stereotyped them to the extent that you see the Senator for Marsabit saying that, not because he is a Rendile, but, probably, because he is a Muslim and looks like a Somali, 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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