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"content": "powers are curtailed and checks and balances are put in place to ensure that corruption does not rein in the process. Some of the people who are serving sentences outside this country could find their way into this country and, in a very short period of time, we could find all of them in this country. We must ensure that we put legal road-blocks so that those powers are not abused. Our rights as the citizens of this nation have been abused by some countries, especially in the Middle East. They do not consider Kenyans as human beings who are worth living. We have had serious cases where Kenyan citizens have been treated under very inhuman conditions in those countries. Some may not even have got fair judgement and trials in the countries that they have been tried. Therefore, it is important for us to give them an opportunity to come back to this country. We also need to look at this law carefully and create an appellate process. If those countries can treat our citizens in the manner they do when they have not committed any offence, then what happens when they are imprisoned? That means that those Kenyans could be suffering wherever they are. As a nation, we must realise that despite whatever offences those citizens have committed wherever they, they are still Kenyan citizens. The much we can do for them is to ensure that their interests are protected. I support this Bill, but we need to do a critical analysis of some of the clauses, so that they can be polished. Otherwise, its significance and spirit is good for the citizens of this country. I support."
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