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    "id": 496715,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/496715/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. If you want to know the number of Kenyans that are suffering outside, let there be an evacuation and we see exactly how many people are in certain countries without the knowledge of this Government and without the knowledge of the Kenyan public. It is true that many are suffering. Many are running away from issues of vulnerability, delinquency and joblessness. Many are going out because of what we call greener pastures. They end up not being green in that case. A lot of Kenyans are outside there and are suffering. So, for purposes of what you have asked in terms of intervention, I want to suggest two or three things. First, there needs to be a very serious public education particularly from the Ministry of Labour and that of Foreign Affairs. It should be deliberate for Kenyans to know that the first thing that you need to do when you get outside this country, your mother and father is our foreign office. This information is not with the public. A lot of us Members of Parliament here, I want to believe, are assisting people to go out. Sometimes one or two come to you that they are looking for air fare. You are contributing to an air fare for somebody to go out there to look for a job. At the end of the day, you do not hear about these fellows at all, having disappeared wherever they are. We need to have very massive and serious public education in terms of moving out. The Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs need to bring this out very clearly for the public not to suffer the extent to which we are suffering."
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