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    "id": 509462,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "Deputy President equally ought to be relieved of the obligations that he is being placed under by the court. So, we can sit back and see if this is, in fact, beneficial. As my colleagues have said, we do not need even to rush and exit the treaty. Secondly, there is no need of signing international treaties and obligations if you cannot observe the same domestically. I want to associate myself with the sentiments of my colleague from Budalang’i, hon. Ababu Namwamba, on the treatment of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the former Western Province and, I understand, parts of Nyanza. It is as if nothing happened. These people lost property. They lost all that they had and they have not been compensated in any way. I think that fair judgment and the same treatment of persons in this respect is very important. We are sending our people in large numbers to the Middle East where racial discrimination and slavery are still rampant. I feel that the Kenya Government should be more active in restraining people from going to these areas where laws are broken without any regard to human values. We need to protect our citizens because they do help this economy when they work out there. They should not help this economy at the expense of their lives. We have lost a few people out there. We have also gotten people severely beaten and mistreated in ways that a civilized person would cringe if they were ever to be subjected to that kind of treatment. Some good aspects are like the protection of patents; you know that the issue of fake imports is a major threat to our economy. I hope that protection of patents, as well as what relates to trade pacts that provide the integrity of the products of our nation, shall be aggressively pursued. Finally, I would like to quickly comment on the last two, which are related. These are the Convention on Transnational Organized Crime as well as the one on narcotics and drugs. In this country, particularly at the Coast--- I think it is true that very many parts of the country are under severe attack from drug peddlers and other big dealers, who are powerful. You hear frequently that just off the Coast heroine worth about Kshs6 billion has been discovered and then things go silent. I would hope that we, as a nation, would jealously guard our participation in these conventions. We need to ensure that we domesticate as many of them as possible in our own laws. In the interest of time, I just stood up to note. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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