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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mohamed Diriye",
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        "legal_name": "Diriye Abdullahi Mohamed",
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    "content": "subjected to a very discriminatory vetting process and I want this to be taken very seriously. You can imagine that we are discriminating against our people. Our Kenyan citizens are being discriminated against. They are not being given their rights and are treated as second class citizens. These are very serious crimes which the Government is committing and I wish my colleagues would support this issue. They should treat it as a priority. I urge the Government to ensure that all Kenyans irrespective of where they come from, even if they are from Lamu or Migori get identity cards. If not so then the Government should tell us officially that they are discriminating against us and that we are second class citizens. It looks like it is the official position of the Government. It is something that we cannot stomach anymore. As the Member of Parliament, whenever I go to my constituency I meet my constituents who do not have identity cards and who are discriminated against on the basis of their ethnicity. So, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we are urging the Government to immediately issue identity cards to the people in Mandera, Wajir and Garissa. Secondly, we are requesting that the discriminatory vetting process that is meted only on Somalis and to some extent to the Muslims be stopped immediately. Why are we being subjected to discriminatory processes? Are we not Kenyans? Thirdly, we are asking that those people whose names are in the database of the Commissioner for Refugee Affairs who have been erroneously and wrongly captured as refugees and yet they are Kenyans, be given amnesty. We know those people because they come to my office. The local chief knows them. Their fathers, mothers and grandparents have Kenyan identity cards which they took a long time. The youth who erroneously registered as refugees, their citizenship should be restored and identity cards be given to them. Otherwise, what the Government is doing right now amounts to crimes against humanity because you deny somebody all his or her rights. You gag somebody. You are not treating them like other citizens. You have discriminated against him or her. What do you think this person will do? As elected leaders from that area, we are faced daily with problems that successive regimes have propagated from as far back as Jomo Kenyatta’s era. There is a roadblock as you come from Wajir, Mandera and Garissa. It is on a river bridge where everybody, including me must show identity cards and other documents. My fingerprints The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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