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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Gathecha",
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        "legal_name": "Annah Nyokabi Gathecha",
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    "content": ".Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The late Eunice went to work in Saudi Arabia in 2012. Within three months of arriving at her work station, she was murdered. The family was not made aware of her death until a year later. It took not just a year for the parents to get that information, but another six tragic months of this family moving from office to office within the Foreign Affairs Department trying to get whatever legal assistance was possible. Shortly after they contacted me, it took another additional four months for that body to be brought back. That is a total of two years from the time this lady had passed on. Nobody knew her whereabouts and the family was not informed. Her employer, the head of the police in Saudi Arabia, who should have been in a position to protect her and from whom she could have gone for legal redress, is currently being accused as the person who assisted in her death. This is just one Eunice of very many Kenyans stuck in Saudi Arabia. There are many others, not just from Central, but from other areas. I have here with me the names of Concepta Atamba Khamasi from Ikolomani, who died two years ago and Maryanne Wanjiku from Muguga Ward, whose body is still being held by the Government of Saudi Arabia for the last one month. This is an atrocity and a crime. People leave this country in a bid to get opportunities. We do not send them to other countries to be killed, murdered and mistreated. They are going out there to offer their services. We expect them to repatriate some of the money they earn to assist their families. They leave here because of poverty and that is the main reason that the majority of the people leave this country to go and look for greener pastures outside this country. This is a travesty of justice. As a House, every single Kenyan here, every representative in this House should take this issue very seriously. I recommend that we observe one minute of silence in respect of those families and the people who have died in Saudi Arabia, the Middle East and other countries. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, may we observe a minute of silence."
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