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    "id": 555532,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ombaka",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Christine Oduor Ombaka",
        "slug": "christine-oduor-ombaka"
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    "content": "Kenyans are abroad and whether or not they are registered with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The question is whether or not we can track them down. Americans are very good in knowing where their citizens are. They are very smart in knowing that their citizens are suffering in another country, and they act quickly to rescue them. Do we have such a system? I believe that we do not have such a system. This is the time this Bill is going to raise many issues; we will need to know where our children and grandparents are, so that we ensure that they are safe wherever they are. What I know is that Kenyans love living abroad, whether prisoners or not. They simply love living abroad, settle and own property there. If you transfer a prisoner to Kenya because he is a Kenyan, how about his family? Are you also going to transfer his family? How costly can that be? In a way we need to understand the cost of transferring a prisoner. How much will it cost the Kenyan Government to transfer prisoners? How many will they be in a year? We need to start budgeting along those lines. How about their families who live in foreign countries? Do you want to transfer the criminal only or the entire family? Those are the challenging issues that I see emerging in this Bill; we need to ensure that this is a good Bill. Otherwise, we need to protect Kenyans abroad. In some cases, there may be no need to transfer them here, because the prisons over there will be already taking care of them. The few Kenyans I have met abroad seem to love living abroad even if they are prisoners. They still enjoy being there. They do not want to come home. They simply associate home with suffering and hardship. So many of them would rather stay there and enjoy prison life."
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