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    "id": 496703,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyura",
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        "legal_name": "Michael Aringo Onyura",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The matter being raised here is very serious, and should not be taken lightly at any one level. Listening to the hon. Member enumerating all the facts and figures, what comes to mind immediately is where the Government is. Where are the relevant Ministries and departments that are supposed to be protecting Kenyans? It is embarrassing that Kenyans can go to a foreign country and be treated like slaves or domestic animals and fail to take the matter seriously. Where are our embassies? What is the Kenyan Embassy in those countries doing? Why do we send ambassadors and other embassy staff to those countries and give them all the privileges that they enjoy? This whole system stinks. It needs to be examined very thoroughly and in great depth right from the moment our citizens leave this country to wherever they go. We cannot leave them at the mercy of such cruelty. Maybe, a taskforce or committee or some agency should be put together to try and look into the details of these matters with a view to exposing the people behind this scam. We need to know the people who lure our citizens to enter into a kind of arrangement that has no provision for any protection, in case of mistreatment. This is a very serious matter and, therefore, I support the position that we should look at it very seriously as a House. We should recommend that it be investigated thoroughly and seriously, so that we can know the people behind the scam with a view to subjecting them to justice. Some citizens are conned, given false information and lured to go to those places. I condemn the whole matter of our citizens being mistreated and call upon the Government to take this matter very seriously and protect Kenyans. If you mistreat an American, there will be fireworks from the highest level of the US Government. That is the way to go because it is the responsibility of the Government to protect Kenyans wherever they are. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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