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    "id": 479448,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/479448/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shidiye",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2070,
        "legal_name": "Mohamed Muktar Shidiye",
        "slug": "mohamed-muktar-shidiye"
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    "content": "On security matters, if the Government is serious and committed, let us register all the refugees. Most of these refugees end up in Europe and others in North America and in less than three months, they are given identity cards, passports or a nationality in those countries. If a mzungu is giving identity cards, nationalities and recognizes those people, why are we not doing that? There are many Ugandans who came here and ended up settling. Immigrants normally upscale the economy of any country. If I leave here today and I stay in Europe or in Canada, within a short time, I will end up being a citizen. In any case, you are not permanent. The maximum number of years somebody lives is maybe 60 to 70 years and then he expires. We are all here for a season and we are all going to leave. So, if we are committed to help our people and make sure that they get opportunities and reduce insecurity, we have only two options, namely, either take back the refugees or make the refugees who are here Kenyan citizens for the sake of peace, unity and harmony. This is for us to come together as a country. In the Bill of Rights, every Kenyan who is born here has a right to be a citizen of this country. But are we following the law? Are people realizing that we are in the new constitutional dispensation? Are we doing the right thing? Are we doing justice to our people? You will realise that time has come where we must shed the old thinking and everybody should be looked at as a Kenyan. If you go to Tanzania today, people look at themselves as Tanzanians."
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