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    "id": 408140,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wekesa",
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        "legal_name": "David Wafula Wekesa",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. Let me take this opportunity to thank the Chairman, hon. Kamama, who is my good friend. I am not afraid to say that he has been fighting with us in pursuit of this issue. However, on the Floor of this House, he has no option other than reading the Statement signed by the Cabinet Minister – a Statement which is insufficient and full of contradictions. In this Statement, the Cabinet Minister stated that the refugees would return to their countries in two years’ time, indicating that they would mostly be of Somali origin, forgetting that in the matrix that he has attached to this Statement he has indicated that there are refugees from various countries. I am looking at the last column of the table, where it is indicated “others”. On the column of Dadaab Camp, he has indicated 11 refugees. On the second-last column, for Mombasa, he has indicated 70, totalling to 266 refugees. Here is a government which knows that we have about 266 refugees but it does not bother to establish their nationalities. We have been told that Kenyan youths of Somali origin might have registered as refugees because of lack of opportunities in Kenya. We need to be told the position of refugees in this country, and whether the Government knows what goes on in the refugee camps. We are not even sure whether as refugees join camps they are vetted, and by who. What is the Government’s position in this process?"
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